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34 1However, it seemed good to Silas to remain there.  
35 aPaul and Barnabas also remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.  

Division over John Mark

36 Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing.”
37 Now Barnabas was determined to take with them aJohn called Mark.  
38 But Paul insisted that they should not take with them athe one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.  
39 Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to aCyprus;  
40 but Paul chose Silas and departed, abeing commended by the brethren to the grace of God.  
41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, astrengthening the churches. 
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Acts 15:36

Let us return now and visit the brethren (epistreyantev de episkeywmeqa touv adelfouv). Paul takes the initiative as the leader, all the more so if the rebuke to Peter and Barnabas in Galatians 2:11-21 had already taken place. Paul is anxious, like a true missionary, to go back to the fields where he has planted the gospel. He uses the hortatory subjunctive (episkeywmeqa) for the proposal (see on Acts 15:14 for this verb). Note the repeated epi (epi-streyantev and episkeywmeqa). There is special point in the use of dh (shortened form of hdh), now at this juncture of affairs (cf. Acts 13:2).

How they fare (pwv exousin). Indirect question, "how they have it." The precariousness of the life of new converts in pagan lands is shown in all of Paul's Epistles (Furneaux). So he wanted to go city by city (kata polin pasan).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 15:36:

Acts 11:24
Acts 13:2
Acts 15:34
Colossians 4:10
Revelation 1:12

 

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