Image: Map: Part of Paul's First Missionary Journey 44-46 AD : Paul and Barnabas shook the dust from their feet as a sign of rejection and went to the town of Iconium | Some of the Jews, jealous of the attention Paul was commanding, started slandering Paul and argued against whatever he said |
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The region is now part of modern day Turkey | Paul declared that as the Jews had rejected the message about Jesus, they would tell it to the Gentiles |
Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had been done, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
26Image: Barnabas and Saul go out as missionaries: "Now when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus, who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man | Many Gentiles became Christians and were full of joy and the Holy Spirit |
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Pisidian Antioch was an important city where several trade routes met | Image: When they landed in Perga, John Mark decided to leave Paul and Barnabas and return to Jerusalem |
From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.
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