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Acts 15
³⁷ Now Barnabas was determined to take with them John called Mark.
³⁸ But Paul insisted that they should not take with them the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.
³⁹ Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus;
⁴⁰ but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of God.
⁴¹ And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
Acts 16
¹ Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was Greek.
² He was well spoken of by the brethren who were at Lystra and Iconium.
³ Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region, for they all knew that his father was Greek.
⁴ And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees to keep, which were determined by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.
⁵ So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
⁶ Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia.