Acts 15:36-41

St Paul's Second Missionary Journey, 49, 50 a.d. (Act 15:36 to Act 18:22)

Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his missionary labours. He first revisited the Churches founded on the First Journey, and then carried the gospel to Europe, preaching at Philippi, Thessalonica, Berosa, Athens, and Corinth, He then returned to the Syrian Antioch, and visited Jerusalem.

Act 15:36 to Acts 16:5. The Galatian and other Churches revisited.

Acts 15:36-41. St. Paul's grievance against Barnabas was that the latter insisted on taking with them an unsuitable assistant simply because he was a relation. The Church of Antioch seems to have sympathised with St. Paul (see Act 15:40). St. Paul was subsequently reconciled with. Barnabas (1Co 9:6) and also with Mark (2 Timothy 4:11; Col 4:10).

41. Confirming the churches] see Acts 16:5, and op. Acts 14:22.