The Voyage Past Paphos: Measuring a Changed Life

As Paul's ship passed Cyprus, Maclaren invites us to stand with the apostle on deck and contemplate the distance traversed. Years before, at Paphos, Paul had departed with Barnabas and John Mark, an unknown missionary embarking upon his calling. Now, sailing past those same "glittering roofs and groves," he returns—not as a beginning evangelist, but as one whose labors have filled the Mediterranean with converts.…