Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Acts 14:25

"And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;" — Acts 14:25 (ASV)

Directly south of Phrygia was the region of Pisidia and south of that the province of Pamphylia. In Pamphylia the apostles preached at Perga, the chief city of the province, thus beginning the kind of witness in Perga they had been unable to begin on their first visit (cf. comment on 13:13). Of its results we know nothing, nor do we know the nature of their visit to the port of Attalia, some eight miles further south on the Mediterranean coast, from where they embarked on a boat for the voyage back to Syria.