Acts - 15:35



35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

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Explanation and meaning of Acts 15:35.

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Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
But Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
And Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and announcing the glad tidings, with many others also, of the word of the Lord.
And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news, with many others also, the word of the Lord;
But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and, in company with many others, telling the Good News of the Lord's Message.
But Paul and Barnabas kept on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of God, with a number of others.
But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming the word of the Lord, with many others also.
And Paul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, with many others, teaching and evangelizing the Word of the Lord.
Paul and Barnabas, however, remained in Antioch, where they taught and, with the help of many others, told the good news of the Lord's message.

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Historical Commentaries

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Paul also, and Barnabas, continued in Antioch - How long a time is unknown. It is probable that at this time the unhappy incident occurred between Paul and Peter which is recorded in Galatians 2:11-14.

Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch,.... As well as Silas: teaching and preaching the word of the Lord; the Gospel of Christ; not the word of men, but the word of the Lord, of which he is both the author and subject: this they preached in season, and out of season, with power, purity, plainness, and faithfulness.
And many others also; who either came along with them from Jerusalem, when they brought the letter from thence, or were here before; who came hither upon the persecution raised at the death of Stephen, Acts 11:19 or they were the prophets which afterwards came from Jerusalem thither, Acts 11:27 such as Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, Acts 13:1.

Paul . . . and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching--to the disciples.
and preaching--to those without.
the word of the Lord, with many others--other laborers.
also--How rich must Antioch at this time have been in the ministrations of the Gospel! (For a painful scene on this occasion between Paul and Peter, see Galatians 2:11-14).

Paul and Barnabas abode in Antioch - And it was during this time that Peter came down from Jerusalem, and that St. Paul withstood him to the face, for separating himself from the Gentiles, Galatians 2:11, &c.

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