Acts 11:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Barnabas is here described to be beyond what the Jews called a righteous man, who would say to his neighbour, That which is yours is yours, and that which is mine is mine; meaning such as would do no wrong. But Barnabas, as the good man in their esteem, (such a one as the apostle speaks of, Romans 5:7, for whom one would dare to die), had actually made, and not called only, that which was his his poor neighbours, selling what he had to bestow upon them, as Acts 4:37. Much people was added unto the Lord; his good works, accompanying his good preaching, might be a great means of the conversion of so many.