And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”
Paul stayed at Antioch long enough to establish order there because he knew what force principal churches have to steady all the rest. He remembered he was God's apostle to all whom he begat in the Lord, not pastor of one place only, and he could not abandon the work he had begun. Yet he showed wisdom in not rushing about with immoderate heat, for pastors' thoughtless zeal hurts as much as their sluggishness.
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Paul had wintered at Antioch, but his active spirit would not rest idle long. He proposed to Barnabas that they take a second campaign among the Gentiles, not to begin new work but to review their old fields. Two are better than one, and Paul needed his friend's help to strengthen the young converts against Satan's kingdom.
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Commenting on Acts 15:36-41
And Barnabas determined,.... Or consulted, and contrived in his own mind, and purposed within himself; the Alexandrian copy, and two of Beza's, the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions read, "he would", or was willing; he had a mind, a very great desire, to take with them John, whose surname was Mark; of whom see Act 12:12 he being his sister's son, Col 4:10 him...