Acts 14:18-28

¹⁸Even with this appeal they could hardly restrain the people from offering sacrifice to them.

¹⁹Presently, however, there came some Jews from Antioch, and Iconium who, after they had won over the people, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the town, thinking him to be dead.

²⁰But, when the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town; the next day he went with Barnabas to Derbe.

²¹After telling the good news throughout that town, and making a number of converts, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

²²reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the kingdom of God.

²³They also appointed elders for them in every church, and, after prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had learned to believe.

²⁴Paul and Barnabas then went through Pisidia, and came into Pamphylia,

²⁵and, after telling the message at Perga, went down to Attaleia.

²⁶From there they sailed to Antioch — the place where they had been committed to the gracious care of God for the work which they had now finished.

²⁷After their arrival, they gathered the church together, and gave an account of all that God had helped them to do, and especially how he had opened to the Gentiles the door of faith;

²⁸and at Antioch they stayed with the disciples for a considerable time.