They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
Parallel translations
- WEB When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
- KJV And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
- NKJV And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
- NASB And after they had preached the gospel to that city and had made a good number of disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch,
- NLT After preaching the Good News in Derbe and making many disciples, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch of Pisidia,
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Quick answer
After making many disciples in Derbe, they retraced their steps to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch. The missionaries cared not only to win converts but to strengthen them.
Overview
Rather than press on to safety, they courageously returned to the very cities where they had been persecuted in order to establish the new believers. Evangelism for them included follow-up and discipleship, not merely initial conversion. This return journey models pastoral responsibility for the churches the gospel creates.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 13:51So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.
- Acts 14:1At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
- Acts 14:19Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
- Acts 13:14And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch, where they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down.
- Matt 28:19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
- Acts 14:6they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
- 2 Tim 3:11my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
- Acts 15:36Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
- Acts 14:8In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
- Acts 16:2The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.
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