A sharp contention (παροξυσμος). Our very word paroxysm in English. Old word though only twice in the N.T. , from παροξυνω, to sha…

And the contention was so sharp. The word used here—paroxusmov—is that from which our word paroxysm is derived. It may d…

And the contention was so sharp between them, that ...—Literally, there was a sharp contention, (or paroxysm…

John Mark, Barnabas’s cousin (cf.Colo ians 4:10), probably became convinced of the appropriatene of Paul’s Gentile policy by the action…

And the contention was so sharp between them; About this matter; Barnabas insisting on it, that John Mark should go with …

Here we have a private quarrel between two ministers, no le than Paul and Barnabas, yet it was made to end well. Barnabas wished his nephew John Ma…