So they stayed there a long time with the disciples.

1. Mission work is exhausting. It takes it toll on their energy. They have worked, now they need some rest.

2. They remain in Antioch for some time working, teaching and preaching in that area.

3. Albert Barnes makes this observation: "How long is not intimated; but we hear no more of them until the council at Jerusalem, mentioned in the next chapter. If the transactions recorded in this chapter occurred, as is supposed, about 45 a.d. or 46 a.d., and the council at Jerusalem assembled 51 a.d. or 53 a.d., as is supposed, then here is an interval of from five to eight years in which we have no account of them."

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