Paul and Barnabas were preparing to go back to the churches they had established during their first missionary journey (Acts 15:36). It had been a dangerous series of encounters because of increasingly violent opposition from religionists who refused to accept Jesus as God's way to salvation. Barnabas wanted to include his cousin, John Mark, on the team. But that young man, who later wrote Mark's gospel, had deserted Paul and Barnabas part-way through the previous mission, and Paul did not want to take him again (Acts 13:13; Acts 15:37-38).
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