A city in ancient Pamphylia where Paul & Barnabas disembarked after their journey from Paphos in Cyprus during their First Missionary Journey (Acts 13:13). For reasons never recorded, John Mark—who had joined them from the start of their mission—decided he would not continue with them. He returned to Jerusalem on his own. Whatever the reasons for it, Paul viewed it serious enough to risk a heated quarrel and a breach with Barnabas over it when, on a later occasion, the latter wanted to include John Mark in their second mission (Acts 15:9). This departure of John Mark seemed to have so disturbed them in the city that they did not seemed to have spent time preaching in the city but had moved on into the interior to Pisidian Antioch immediately afterwards. They, however, did make up for this lack on their way home (Acts 14:25).
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