5 When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the ^osynagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.

7 He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

44 The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and ^lglorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. 49 And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.