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But when the disciples gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day Paul and Barnabas left for the city of Derbe.
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They spread the Good News in that city and won many disciples. Then they went back to the cities of Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch (which is in Pisidia).
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They strengthened the disciples in these cities and encouraged the disciples to remain faithful. Paul and Barnabas told them, "We must suffer a lot to enter the kingdom of God."
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They had the disciples in each church choose spiritual leaders, and with prayer and fasting they entrusted the leaders to the Lord in whom they believed.
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After they had gone through Pisidia, they went to Pamphylia.
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They spoke the message in the city of Perga and went to the city of Attalia.
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From Attalia they took a boat and headed home to the city of Antioch [in Syria]. (In Antioch they had been entrusted to God's care for the work they had now finished.)
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When they arrived, they called the members of the church together. They reported everything God had done through them, especially that he had given people who were not Jewish the opportunity to believe.
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They stayed for a long time with these disciples.