Acts 15:32 - Exposition

Being themselves also prophets for being prophets also themselves, A.V. Being themselves also prophets , exhorted, etc. Observe the connection of exhortation with prophecy, and compare the explanation of the name of Barnabas in Acts 4:36 , note. Confirmed them ; ἐπεστήριξαν , as verse 41 and Acts 14:22 ; Acts 18:23 . Nothing is so unsettling as controversy; but the preaching of these "chief men" brought back men's minds to the solid faith and hope of the gospel. How rich the Church of Antioch was at this time, with Paul and Barnabas, Judas and Silas, and probably Titus, and some, if not all, of those mentioned in Acts 13:1 , for their teachers.