13Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
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But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister. …
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-13)In these verses we have, I. A general account of the coming of Barnabas and Saul to the famous island of Cyprus; and perhaps thitherward they steered their course because Barnabas was a native of that country (Acts 4:36), and he was willing they should have the first-fruits of his labours, pursuant to his new commission. Observe, 1. Their being sent forth by the Holy Ghost was the great thing that…
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