<p>13:5- see on Acts 4:24-30.</p><p><i>And when they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the</i><i> word of God</i>- Literally, the <i>logos</i> of God, which is the Lord Jesus. &quot;The word of God&quot; was a common Old Testament term for the prophetic word spoken through the prophets, but that had now come to a climax in the word about Jesus.</p><p><i>In the synagogues of the Jews</i>- The movement of the Spirit was clearly for Saul to go &quot;far hence unto the Gentiles&quot;, but he immediately begins his missionary work on arrival at the capital, Salamis, as he sadly continued it- with a stubborn obsession with preaching to the Jews, when this was Peter's work.</p><p><i>They had also John to assist them</i>- Gk. 'to be their minister'. There was typically a minister or assistant attached to the synagogues, and so the impression may be that Saul and Barnabas were effectively taking over as the rabbis of the synagogues, and John Mark was their minister. Or perhaps the idea is that Saul preached as a Rabbi, and John Mark was his minister.</p>