Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.”