Thought for the Week – What Was To Be Gained

Paul and Barnabas and later Paul and Silas are what we might call "Traveling Evangelists." As such their primary function was to give out the "Good News of the Gospel." Reactions to their wonderful message were varied. In Acts Chapter 14 we will take note of some of those reactions. There will be three cities to look at in this passage of Scripture.

We start with the city of Iconium. They had left Antioch of Pisidia and traveled about 90 miles to Iconium. It was their custom to begin their evangelistic preaching in the Jewish synagogue if there was one. So it was here in Iconium. But it seems...