Thought for the Week

Barnabas and Paul have now parted company. Barnabas goes to the sea and journeys to Cyprus, his home country. We hear no more of him in the Book of Acts, but that is not necessarily negative. We only catch small glimpses of a few disciples. The great majority of them are unheard of. Perhaps that will be some of what we do in Heaven, hear the stories of the saints we hear nothing about here.

Paul goes overland, reversing the journey that brought him back to Antioch. His first recorded stops are at Derbe, Lystra and Iconium. You may remember that at these three places Paul suffered persecution....