{Let us return now and visit the brethren} (epistrepsantes
de episkeps(936d)etha tous adelphous). Paul takes the initiative as
the leader, all the more so if the rebuke to Peter and Barnabas
in  Ga 2:11-21  had already taken place. Paul is anxious, like a
true missionary, to go back to the fields where he has planted
the gospel. He uses the hortatory subjunctive (episkeps(936d)etha)
for the proposal (see on 氣5:14| for this verb). Note the
repeated epi (epi-strepsantes and episkeps(936d)etha). There is
special point in the use of d(885c) (shortened form of (8864)(885c)), now
at this juncture of affairs (cf.  13:2 ). {How they fare} (p(9373)
echousin). Indirect question, "how they have it." The
precariousness of the life of new converts in pagan lands is
shown in all of Paul's Epistles (Furneaux). So he wanted to go
city by city (kata polin p(8373)an).