Bruised and saddened, feeling perhaps that his mission was in ruins, Paul broke with Barnabas, and together with Silas, one of the prophets in the Antioch community, he set out on a mission to “the ends of the earth.” He was now convinced that he alone was true to the gospel, but his Jewish colleagues may understandably have felt betrayed, because he seemed to be turning his back on the agreement made so affirmatively in Jerusalem.
