Gary Gleans

                                                                                       Acts 16:1-5 Paul   came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.   He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the...

                                                                                       Acts 15:36-41 And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”   Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark.   But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.   And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,   but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of ...

                                                                        Acts 15:22-35 Then it seemed good to   the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called   Barsabbas, and   Silas, leading men among   the brothers,   with the following letter:   “The brothers, both   the apostles and the elders, to the brothers   who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia,   greetings.   Since we have heard that   some persons have gone out from us and   troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,   it has seemed good to us, having come   to one accord, to cho...

                                                                                       Acts 15:1-21 But some men came down from Judea and were teaching   the brothers, “Unless you are  circumcised   according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.  And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and   debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and   some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to   the apostles and the elders about this question.   So,   being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria,   describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and   brought great joy to all   the brothers.   When they ca...

                                                                             Acts 14:20-28 But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.    And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.  Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia...

                                                                                       Acts 14:8-20 Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well,   said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he sprang up and began walking.    And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!” Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.    And the priest of Zeus, whose t...

Acts 14:1-7 Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.   But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.   But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles.   When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,   they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country,   and there they continued to preach the gospel.   As Paul and Barnabas move forward to Iconium, a pattern in their ministry begins to emerge.  It is a pattern we have seen before, ...