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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 15:37-41

Acts 15:37-41. And Barnabas determined Greek, εβουλευσατο , counselled, or advised; to take with them As their minister; John His nephew, who had set out with them before. But Paul thought not good Thought it not proper; to take him who departed, &c. Who had shown such cowardice or fickleness as to desert them in Pamphylia; who had shrunk from the labour and danger of converting those whom they were now going to confirm. And the contention was so sharp Greek, εγενετο παρο ,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 15:36-41

15:36-18:22 INTO EUROPE (SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY)Choosing a partner (15:36-41)Paul and Barnabas thought that, in view of the recent troubles with the Judaisers, they should revisit the newly established churches in Galatia (36). Unfortunately, they could not agree on whether to take Mark with them. Barnabas wanted to but Paul refused, as he considered Mark to be unreliable. In the end they separated, Barnabas going to his native Cyprus with Mark, and Paul going to his native Cilicia with... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 15:41

Acts 15:41. Confirming the churches.— Mr. Cradock and many others think, that St. Paul sailed from Cilicia to Crete at this time, and, returning to the Asiatic continent quickly after, left Titus to perfect the settlement of the church there, Titus 1:5. Inferences.—How early did the spirit of bigotry and imposition begin to work in the Christian church!—that fatal humour of imposing a yoke on the neck of Christ's disciples, by making indifferent things necessary!—that unmanly and antichristian... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 15:41

41. and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches—"It is very likely that Paul and Barnabas made a deliberate and amicable arrangement to divide the region of their first mission between them; Paul taking the continental, and Barnabas the insular, part of the proposed visitation. If Barnabas visited Salamis and Paphos, and if Paul (travelling westward), after passing through Derbe, Lystra, and Iconium, went as far as Antioch in Pisidia, the whole circuit of the proposed... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 15:36-41

The beginning of Paul’s second missionary journey 15:36-41 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 15:40-41

Paul and Silas departed from Antioch with the church’s blessing. This time they travelled by land north through Syria and Cilicia where Paul had been born and had previously labored. They strengthened the young churches in those Roman provinces. [Note: See the map of Paul’s second missionary journey in Longenecker, p. 249, or in Toussaint, "Acts," p. 397.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:1-41

The Question of Circumcision1-35. The Council of Jerusalem, 49 a.d. The usual view is that Galatians 2:1-10 describes the visit of St. Paul to Jerusalem on the occasion of this Council. Adopting this, the following was the course of events. The baptism of Gentiles by St. Paul on his First Missionary Journey, without requiring them to be circumcised or to keep the Law, was keenly criticised at Jerusalem by the Pharisaic party within the Church. Some of these malcontents even came to Antioch,... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:36-41

St Paul's Second Missionary Journey, 49, 50 a.d. (Act 15:36 to Act 18:22)Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his missionary labours. He first revisited the Churches founded on the First Journey, and then carried the gospel to Europe, preaching at Philippi, Thessalonica, Berosa, Athens, and Corinth, He then returned to the Syrian Antioch, and visited Jerusalem.Act 15:36 to Acts 16:5. The Galatian and other Churches... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 15:41

(41) He went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.—Cilicia, it will be remembered, had not been visited on St. Paul’s first journey with Barnabas, and the churches must accordingly have been founded at some earlier period, probably during St. Paul’s residence at Tarsus before he came to Antioch (Acts 9:30; Acts 11:25).Confirming is, it need hardly be said, used in the general sense of “strengthening,” but as the bestowal of spiritual gifts by the laying-on of hands was a chief... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Acts 15:1-41

Self-inquiry in Religion Acts 15:36 This was a proposal made by St. Paul to Barnabas after their first missionary journey; he suggested revisiting the Churches they had founded, to see if their members were continuing steadfast in the faith, growing in grace, advancing in the spiritual life standing still, or falling away. It was both a wise and useful proposal. And we, nineteen centuries after, may apply it to ourselves; let us 'consider our ways,' and find out how things stand between... read more