Then the apostles, the presbyters, and the whole church thought it proper to select some out of their own body to accompany Paul and Barnabas to Antioch: such as Judas surnam'd Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,

we therefore send Judas and Silas to inform you in person of this affair.

they were affected with joy at the comfortable contents, as for Judas and Silas,

however Silas thought fit to stay at Antioch,

but Paul chose Silas, and having been recommended by the brethren to the favour of God,

her masters finding they had lost such a prospect of gain, seized upon Paul and Silas, and hawl'd them to the publick place before the magistrates.

At midnight Paul and Silas went to prayers, and sang praises to God, which the other prisoners heard:

then having called for a light, he ran in, and with trembling fell down before Paul and Silas;

Some of them believed, and join'd themselves to Paul and Silas, besides a great number of Greek proselytes, and several women of distinction.

Immediately the brethren sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea, where being arriv'd, they went into the synagogue.

Upon this the brethren immediately sent Paul away to the sea-coast, but Silas and Timothy staid there.

however Paul's guides attended him to Athens: where they left him, after having received his orders for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed.

and when Silas and Timothy were arriv'd from Macedonia, Paul with great concern remonstrated to the Jews, that Jesus was the Messiah: