And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
And when they had fasted and prayed. As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting when this supernatural direction came to them, so now, in fulfilling it, they engage in the same exercises.
And laid their hands on them (see the note at Acts 6:6) - "recommending them (as we afterward learn that they did, Acts 14:26) to the grace of God for the work which they had to fulfil."
They sent them away - that is, this church itself did so. And thus did they go forth with a double call: they were summoned forth to this work by the Holy Spirit, and by the church at Antioch they were 'sent away.' Accordingly, the historian adds --