Acts 12:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry,d and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. ”

• Acts 12:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Returned from Jerusalem - They had gone to Jerusalem to carry alms, and they now returned to Antioch, Acts 11:30 . When they had fulfilled their ministry - When they had accomplished the pur...

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• Acts 12:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Fate of the Soldiers and of Herod. For the soldiers, cf. Acts 5:21 ff. Here they are led away to be put to death. The story of Herod's glorification and end is told by Josephus in a similar way...

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• Acts 12:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  ministry , i.e. of administering the contributions of Acts 11:30 . Greek. diakonia. App-190. took with them . Greek. sumparalambano. Only here, Acts 15:37 ; Acts 15:38 , and Galatians 1:2...

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• Acts 12:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25 And Barnabas and Paul. The ministry which Luke saith Barnabas and Paul did finish, must be referred unto the alms, whereof mention was made before. For after that Agabus the prophet had f...

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• Acts 12:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. Returned from Jerusalem - That is, to Antioch, after the deat...

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• Acts 12:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And—when they had fulfilled their ministry,— When they had delivered up the alms which they brought from Antioch to the elders at Jerusalem, ch. Acts 11:29-30 and finished all their ministerial b...

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• Acts 12:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem. It is im...

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• Acts 12:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Imprisonment of Peter. Death of Herod 1-19. Persecution of the Church at Jerusalem by Herod. Martyrdom of James the son of Zebedee. Peter's imprisonment and miraculous release. The Church was pers...

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• Acts 12:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  When they had fulfilled their ministry. — The same noun is used as that translated “relief” in Acts 11:29 . We may, perhaps, assign the vision related in Acts 22:17-21 , to this visit; but see No...

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• Acts 12:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  beyond Their Faith Acts 12:13-25 Mark's mother was evidently a woman of property, as her house was large enough to receive the many who felt that prayer was the key to open Peter's prison. Rhod...

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• Acts 12:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Again persecution broke out in Jerusalem, and the first of the apostolic band suffered martyrdom at the hands of Herod. A revealing sentence concerning Herod is that which declares that when "he saw...

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• Acts 12:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  But the word of God grew and multiplied. (25) And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. What a sweet rel...

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• Acts 12:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem ,.... Two of Beza's exemplars, the Complutensian edition and the Syriac version, add, "unto Antioch"; and certain it is, that from thence they were sent...

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• Acts 12:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But the word of God grew and multiplied Became more successful; and in every place where it was preached, the number of disciples was considerably multiplied, and their faith greatly established. S...

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• Acts 12:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  For a brief time again our eyes are turned toward Jerusalem and Peter, though Peter's work is no longer taking the prominent place it did at the beginning. Being the apostle to the Jews, he manifestl...

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• Acts 12:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Death of Herod.       20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, havi...

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• Acts 12:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  From Jerusalem; they returned unto Antioch, from whence they were sent, Acts 11:26,30 , to carry the benevolence of the church of Antioch to that of Judea. Their ministry; this was the ministr...

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• Acts 12:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Call To Evangelise Asia Minor (12:25-13:3). ‘And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministration, taking with them John whose surname was Mark.' Acceptin...

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• Acts 12:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 12:20 . For And Herod read And , or but, he—i.e. , Herod. Highly displeased .—θυμομαχῶν, in a hostile state of mind , in modern phrase, “contemplating hostilities” (Pl...

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• Acts 12:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 12:1 . About that time, when the word of the Lord prevailed so remarkably in Antioch and the northern provinces, and when Paul and Barnabas had brought alms to Jerusalem, as in Acts 12:25 ,...

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• Acts 12:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark. John Mark 1. Two names are here, one Jewish, the other Roman; the latter adopted a...

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• Acts 12:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 12:1 Put for stretched, A.V.; afflict for vex, A.V. The phrase, About that time, as in Acts 19:23 , points to what had just before been related (Meyer). The inter...

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• Acts 12:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The judgment of God upon Herod:

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• Acts 12:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 5:13 ; Acts 11:29 ; Acts 11:30 ; Acts 13:13 ; Acts 13:1-3 ; Acts 13:5 ; Acts 15:37 ; Acts 12:12

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• Acts 12:25 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Herod's Duplicity and Death Acts 12:18-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to our final message concerning Peter's third imprisonment. We are about to present the other side of the message. We h...

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• Acts 12:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Saul returned — To Antioch; taking John, surnamed Mark — The son of Mary, (at whose house the disciples met, to pray for Peter,) who was sister to Barnabas.

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