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Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, and they themselves will report the same things by word of mouth.

So when they were sent away, they went down to Antioch; and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.

And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

And after they had spent time there, they were sent away from the brothers in peace to those who had sent them.

Now after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are."

But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

And there was such a sharp disagreement that they separated from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.

Paul wanted this man to go with him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Now while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering the decrees which had been decided upon by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem, for them to keep.

And they passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;

and after they came to Mysia, they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;

and passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit had left, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities,

and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,

And when they had inflicted them with many wounds, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely,

And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your house."

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his household.

But Paul said to them, "Having beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, they have thrown us into prison. And now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out."

And the policemen reported these words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept requesting them to leave the city.