Postulasagan 15:38

Heilögum Biblíunni

38 En Páli þótti eigi rétt að taka með þann mann, er skilið hafði við þá í Pamfýlíu og ekki gengið að verki með þeim.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

who: Acts 13:13, Psalms 78:9, Proverbs 25:19, Luke 9:61, Luke 14:27-34, James 1:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 13:17 - the people repent Deuteronomy 20:8 - fearful Job 34:27 - turned Jeremiah 20:9 - I will Jonah 1:3 - to flee Luke 9:62 - No Acts 2:10 - Pamphylia Acts 14:24 - Pisidia Acts 27:5 - Pamphylia Philippians 2:21 - all 1 Timothy 5:21 - without preferring 2 Timothy 4:10 - hath

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Paul thought not good to take him with them,.... He did not think him worthy, or a fit and proper person to go with them, as the word used seems to signify, and therefore he refused to take him: the Syriac version renders it, "but Paul would not take him with them"; and, the Ethiopic version is very expressive, though it renders it in softer language, "Paul prayed, or entreated Barnabas that he would leave Mark"; that is, behind them at Antioch: his reasons were as follow:

who departed from them from Pamphylia, :-; either through the fatigue of the journey, or fear of danger, or weariness in his work, or affection to his mother; or be it what it will, it seems in the apostle's opinion of the matter, he was very blameworthy, and on account of it very undeserving, at least at present, of being a companion of theirs in their travels:

and went not with them to the work; the Arabic version adds, "of preaching"; that is, the Gospel, in the several places whither they went, and to which the Holy Ghost had called them, and for which the church at Antioch had separated, and sent them forth; but in the midst of this John deserted them; and which the apostle resented, he having, as yet, not given any evidence of his sense of his evil, and of his repentance for it, to his satisfaction; though it seems as if he afterwards did, since in Colossians 4:10 he speaks of him with great respect, as one of his fellow workers, and who had been a comfort to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But Paul thought not good - Did not think it proper. Because he could not confide in his perseverance with them in the toils and perils of their journey.

Who departed from them ... - Acts 13:13. Why he did this is not known. It was evidently, however, for some cause which Paul did not consider satisfactory, and which, in his view, disqualified him from being their attendant again.

To the work - Of preaching the gospel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 38. But Paul thought not good to take him with them — On this subject, Acts 13:13; Acts 13:13.