mission · 46–48 · Cyprus
The church at Antioch fasted and laid hands on Barnabas and Saul and sent them off, and the order of the names reverses somewhere in Cyprus — after which it is Paul and his company. They went up into the Galatian highlands: Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, where the crowd first took them for Hermes and Zeus and then stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city for dead, and Derbe. What matters afterwards is that Gentiles believed in numbers, without becoming Jews first, and that made the Council of Jerusalem unavoidable three years later. Mark went as far as Perga and turned back, which is the quarrel that ends the partnership with Barnabas.
To carry the gospel from Antioch into Cyprus and the Galatian interior.
Churches in the highlands that answer back in his own letters, and the circumcision question made unavoidable.