4-5. Sent off on their new assignment by the Holy Spirit, Barnabas and Saul went down to Seleucia and caught a ship for Cyprus. The first thing they did when they put in at Salamis was preach God’s Word in the Jewish meeting places. They had John along to help out as needed.
40-41. “Don’t take this lightly. You don’t want the prophet’s sermon to describe you:Watch out, cynics;Look hard—watch your world fall to pieces.I’m doing something right before your eyesThat you won’t believe, though it’s staring you in the face.”
42-43. When the service was over, Paul and Barnabas were invited back to preach again the next Sabbath. As the meeting broke up, a good many Jews and converts to Judaism went along with Paul and Barnabas, who urged them in long conversations to stick with what they’d started, this living in and by God’s grace.