(12:25). At the inspiration of the Spirit, the church in Antioch sets apart Barnabas and Saul for missionary work (13:2–3). (143) Luke has organized Saul’s missionary work into three segments, or three missionary journeys. Although, as J. Knox once wrote, “If you had stopped Paul on the streets of Ephesus and said to him, ‘Paul, which of your missionary journeys are you on now?’ he would have looked at you blankly without the remotest idea of what was in your mind” (Chapters, 41–42). The division
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