Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
Ver. 22. Chief men among the brethren] For authority' sake; and that the false apostles might not say that those letters were counterfeit or surreptitiously gotten.