2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
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Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: …
Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. …
And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. …
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Even when things go on very smoothly and pleasantly in a state or in a church, it is folly to be secure, and to think the mountain stands strong and cannot be moved; some uneasiness or other will arise, which is not foreseen, cannot be prevented, but must be prepared for. If ever there was a heaven upon earth, surely it was in the church at Antioch at this time, when there were so many excellent m…
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