4And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
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For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; …
When 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.
And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Paul was a spiritual father, and as such a one we have him here adopting Timothy, and taking care of the education of many others who had been begotten to Christ by his ministry: and in all he appears to have been a wise and tender father. Here is, I. His taking Timothy into his acquaintance and under his tuition. One thing designed in the book of the Acts is to help us to understand Paul’s epistl…
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