36After some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return and visit the brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are.37Barnabas wanted to take along with them also John who was called Mark.38Paul considered it right not to take along with them the one who had withdrawn from them from Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.39A stirring up therefore arose so that they separated from one another, Barnabas having taken Mark and sailed out to Cyprus.40Paul chose Silas and went out, having been delivered to the grace of the Lord by the brothers.41He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.