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Oct 17, 2026
Joel LiebermanHOST
Throw that map up again, David, if you wouldn't mind.
Joel LiebermanHOST
Paul's company came to Perga, northwest there.
Joel LiebermanHOST
In Pamphylia, John left them and returned to Jerusalem.
Joel LiebermanHOST
So Perga, as you see there, was the major city of Pamphylia.
Joel LiebermanHOST
A country, actually, I think.
Joel LiebermanHOST
Did you visit there on your tour of Turkey? Possibly.
Joel LiebermanHOST
I don't know, Victor and Sheila, if you visited Perga there.
Joel LiebermanHOST
But the citizens were a mixture there in Perga of Greeks and barbarians.
J. Vernon McGeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And John Mark joined Paul and Barnabas before the first missionary journey.
J. Vernon McGeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Actually, we're told in Acts 13:5, "And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John to their minister." But this man, of course, he turned back at Perga in Pamphylia, and apparently it was a fact that he was maybe a little yellow.
J. Vernon McGeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Maybe he was chicken, as we would say today, using the commonplace.
J. Vernon McGeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we don't need, I think, to defend John Mark for turning back.
Mary Gamboa TuckerHOST
Yeah.
Randall TuckerHOST
"Paul and Barnabas and John Mark sailed from Paphos to Perga in the region of Pamphylia," there's a lot of P words there, "in south-central Asia Minor.
Randall TuckerHOST
For reasons the Bible does not detail," and I wish it did in some other-
Mary Gamboa TuckerHOST
Right
Randall TuckerHOST
...
Randall TuckerHOST
in some instances, "John Mark left the other two missionaries and returned to Jerusalem," Acts 13:13.
Randall TuckerHOST
It doesn't seem Paul and Barnabas spench mo- spent much time in Perga, but headed north to Pisidian Antioch," there's another one.
Mary Gamboa TuckerHOST
Yep.
DoyleGUEST
After going through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia.
DoyleGUEST
And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
DoyleGUEST
From Attalia, they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.
DoyleGUEST
On arriving there, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
JustinHOST
Verse 13.
JustinHOST
Paul and his companions then left Paphos by ship for Pamphylia, landing at the port town of Perga.
JustinHOST
There, John Mark left them and returned to Jerusalem, but Paul and Barnabas traveled inland to Antioch of Pisidia.
JustinHOST
On the Sabbath, when they went to the synagogue for the services, after the usual readings from the books of Moses and the prophets, those in charge of the service sent them this message.
DoyleGUEST
Acts 13 verses 13 through 52.
DoyleGUEST
From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem.
DoyleGUEST
From Perga, they went on to Pisidian, Antioch.
DoyleGUEST
On the Sabbath, they entered the synagogue and sat down.
DoyleGUEST
After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of exhortation for the people, please speak.
Jeff KinleyHOST
Uh, but Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along because he had deserted them, uh, at Pamphylia and had not gone, uh, with them to the work.
Jeff KinleyHOST
And so, uh, in Pamphylia, uh, John Mark had basically left, and it says now Paul, in chapter 13 verse 13, it says, "Paul and his companions put out to sea from Pamphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, and John left them and returned to Jerusalem." Now, we're not told why John left them.
Jeff KinleyHOST
If it had been, uh, something like a family emergency, which how would he have known about it, right? 'Cause there's no text or email or phone calls, right? Um, but it says he just left them.
Jeff KinleyHOST
So something in John Mark caused him to say, "I don't wanna keep doing this," and he left.
Jerry DirmannHOST
Verse 25.
Jerry DirmannHOST
Now, when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
Jerry DirmannHOST
From there, they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God.
Jerry DirmannHOST
In other words, where they'd been sent out.
speaker_2NARRATOR
After the events in Paphos, the travelers did not stay on Cyprus.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The book of Acts tells us simply that Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, on the southern coast of what is now Turkey.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Notice how Luke describes them now.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Not Barnabas and Saul, Paul and his companions.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Somewhere in that city, a Roman governor now believed, and somewhere in that city, a man sat in darkness, waiting for the time when he might see the sun again.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Then the island itself faded behind them, the hills going blue and then gray and then gone, and once more, there was only the sea.
speaker_2NARRATOR
When they arrived at Perga, something happened that Luke records in a single quiet sentence.
speaker_2NARRATOR
"John left them and returned to Jerusalem." We aren't told why.
JimHOST
And then in verse 13, "Paul and his company loosed from Paphos", that's the coast north of Cyprus.
JimHOST
The, it's a little island, the northern city of Cyprus, and they came across the little part of the Mediterranean, and they landed at Perga, which is a port in, uh, uh, Pamphylia, which is a little, like, hotdog shaped strip of land, uh, at the coast there.
JimHOST
And the right, behind that way up in the mountains is Galatia.
JimHOST
So they landed at, uh, Pamphylia, and John departed from them, returning to Jerusalem.
JimHOST
John stepped on the land at Perga, took one look at the Taurus Mountains, and knew all about the robbers and all about the, well, brigands and of the wild people that inhabited the caves of those mountains.
JimHOST
He knew it all.
JimHOST
And when he heard the plan, he says, "Guys, [person sneezes] God bless you.
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