³⁶After some time had passed, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the brothers and sisters in every town^d where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they’re doing.” ³⁷Barnabas wanted to take along John who was called Mark. ³⁸But Paul insisted that they should not take along this man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work. ³⁹They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company, and Barnabas took Mark^e with him and sailed off to Cyprus. ⁴⁰But Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended by the brothers and sisters to the grace of the Lord.^f ⁴¹He traveled through Syria^g and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

PAUL SELECTS TIMOTHY

16Paul went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy,^h the son of a believing Jewish woman,ⁱ but his father was a Greek. ²The brothers and sisters at Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him.^j ³Paul wanted Timothy to go with him; so he took him and circumcised^k him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek. ⁴As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for the people to observe.^l ⁵So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.^m

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Cross references

d Ac 13:4,13–14,51; 14:6,24
e Ac 12:12; 13:13; Col 4:10
f Ac 11:23; 14:26; 15:22
g Ac 6:9; 15:23; 16:5
h Ac 17:14–15; 18:5; 19:22; 20:4; Rm 16:21; 1Co 4:17; Php 2:19; 1Th 3:2,6
i 2Tm 1:5; 3:15
j Ac 13:51; 16:40
k Gl 2:3
l Ac 11:30; 15:2,28
m Ac 2:47; 9:31; 15:41