25. Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem--where, it thus appears,
they had remained during all this persecution.
when they had fulfilled their ministry--or service; that mentioned on
Ac 11:29, 30.
took with them John . . . Mark--(See on
Ac 12:12),
not to be confounded with the second Evangelist, as is often done. As
his uncle was Barnabas, so his spiritual father was Peter
(1Pe 5:13).
JFB.
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