ACTS 14:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,”
They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch — the missionaries' revisit to sites of persecution represents remarkable courage and consolidation of nascent communities. Rather than fleeing hostile territory permanently, Paul and Barnabas return to strengthen the disciples, modeling persistence in mission.
Church Fathers on Acts 14:21
But there came, it says, certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium Acts 14:19.— Indeed children of the devil, that not in their own cities only, but also beyond them, they did these things, and as much made it their study to make an end of the preaching, as the Apostles were in earnest to establish it!— and having persuaded the multitude and stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city. (e) So then, the Gentiles regarded them as gods, but these dragged him, out of the city,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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