committed themselves in faith (14:23). Paul and Barnabas, who had refused adulation as gods and insisted, “We are humans of like nature with you” (14:11–15), here recognize human limitations. The fact that Paul and Barnabas return to Antioch in order to report to the church reinforces the notion that they had been sent as emissaries of that church and therefore that their mission was an extension of the Antiochene church itself, and that the entire church was, in a sense, participating in their missional