What did Paul and Barnabas tell the church at Antioch when they returned from their first missionary journey?
When Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch, they gathered the church and rehearsed all that God had done with them, especially how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles. They reported the salvation of Gentiles and the churches established during their first missionary journey into Asia Minor.
Les explains that Paul and Barnabas had come back from their first missionary journey into Asia Minor, where churches had been established and quite a few Gentiles had been saved. At Antioch, they gathered the church together and rehearsed all that God had done with them, specifically how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles. Les then connects this to Romans 11, where Paul says that through Israel’s fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, reinforcing the same truth before moving into Acts 15.
And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.