12. Then all . . . gave audience to Barnabas and
Paul--On this order of the names here, see on
Ac 15:25.
declaring what miracles and signs God wrought among the Gentiles by
them--This detail of facts, immediately following up those which Peter
had recalled to mind, would lead all who waited only for divine teaching
to see that God had Himself pronounced the Gentile converts to be
disciples in as full standing as the Jews, without circumcision; and the
attesting miracles to which Paul here refers would tend, in such an
assembly to silence opposition.
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