"Salamis" This was the largest city on the island and was located on the SE part of Cyprus. With. few hours of favorable weather, Barnabas and Saul were now off to their journey. "In the synagogues of the Jews" What better place to start preaching, seeing that these people already believed in the true God and in the inspired status of the Old Testament (Acts 17:2). Notice that the word synagogue is in the plural, they preached in many synagogues on the island. In addition, they start with the Jews first, for God had ordered it (Romans 1:16; Acts 13:46). "They also had John" John Mark is also with them.

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Old Testament