‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”

From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people, it will come to nothing,

While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”