Because the harbor was not suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas off to Antioch.

When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper.