“And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.”
After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified to what they had seen, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem - Peter and John's apostolic work includes both proclamation and testimony ('proclaimed the word and testified'). They return to Jerusalem to report on the mission. The apostolic oversight is complete: they send, they pray, they lay on hands, they instruct and correct, and they return to the center of authority.
Church Fathers on Acts 8:25
For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. Acts 8:23 Words of exceeding wrath! But otherwise he did not punish him: that faith may not thereafter be of compulsion; that the matter may not seem to be carried ruthlessly; that he may introduce the subject of repentance: or also, because it suffices for correction to have convicted him, to have told him what was in his heart, to have brought him to confess himself overcome (ὅ τι ἐ&…
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