Paul's First Missionary Journey - The Return to Antioch; Acts 14:21 – 28 Part 3

Church History: They went on preaching the gospel in other places where they had been. From Antioch they passed through Pisidia, the province in which that Antioch stood; then they came into the province of Pamphylia, the head-city of which was Perga, where they had been before, and came once again to preach the word, making a second offer, to see if they were now better disposed than they were before to receive the gospel. What success they had there we are not told, but that they went down to Attalia, a city of Pamphylia, on the sea-coast. They didn’t stay long at a place, but wherever they came they endeavored to lay a foundation which might afterwards be built upon, and to sow the seeds which would in time produce a great increase in believers. Now Christ's parables were explained, in which he compared the kingdom of heaven to a little leaven, which in time leavened the whole lump, to a grain of mustard-seed, which, though very inconsiderable at first, grew to a great tree and to the seed which a man sowed in his ground, and it sprung up he knew not how.
They then returned to Antioch in Syria, where they had first started this expedition. From Attalia they came by sea to Antioch, and know the first journey was complete. They gathered the church together. It is probable that there were more Christians at Antioch than ordinarily met, or could meet, in one place, but on this occasion they called together the leading men; as the heads of the tribes are often called the congregation of Israel, so the ministers and principal members of the church at Antioch are called the church. They gave them an account of all that had happened to them and the successes they had.