22. They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”
23. When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.
24. Then they passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia,
25. and when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
26. From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.
27. When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.
28. So they spent considerable time with the disciples.