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Barnabas planned to take John with them also, who was called Mark.
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Even Heroes Disagree
Commentators highlight that this sharp disagreement between Paul and Barnabas shows that even the most devoted spiritual leaders are still human. They are subject to passions and differing opinions. This event serves as a reminder that conflict can arise even between godly people, and we should not be shocked when it happens in the church today.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And Barnabas determined. Greek: willed, or was disposed to ebouleusato.
John, etc. (See Barnes on Acts 12:12).
Was minded to take with them (εβουλετο συνπαραλαβειν). Imperfect middle (εβουλετο), not aorist middle εβουλευσατο of the Textus Re…
19th Century
Anglican
Barnabas determined.—The Greek verb is hardly so strong, better, was minded. The ties of relationship led the uncle, or c…
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John Mark, Barnabas’s cousin (cf. Colossians 4:10), probably became convinced of the appropriateness of Paul’s Gentile policy by the act…
16th Century
Protestant
And Barnabas gave counsel. Luke here records that sorrowful disagreement which ought to make all the godly afraid for good reason. The par…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Barnabas determined Or consulted, and contrived in his own mind, and purposed within himself; the Alexandrian copy, a…
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Here we have a private quarrel between two ministers, no less than Paul and Barnabas, yet it was made to end well. Barnabas wished his nephew John …
