What does Acts 12:25 mean? Commentary, explanation and 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 Sau/loj After Sau/loj several Western witnesses (614 itp syrh with * copG67) add o]j evpeklh,qh Pau/loj (“who was called Paul”). This appears to be a scribal anticipation of Acts 13:9 (Sa...
Verse Acts 12:25. _RETURNED FROM JERUSALEM_] That is, to _Antioch_, after the death of Herod. _WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED_ their _ministry_] When they had carried the alms of the Christians at Antioch t...
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 purpose for w...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The great Persecution by Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:1)._ 2. The miraculous deliverance of Peter (Acts 12:6). 3. The Presumption and Judgment of Herod (Acts 12:18). 4. Barnabas and Sa...
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; but...
IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
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; Galatians 1...
_And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem_ i.e. to their labours among the Gentile converts in Antioch. _when they had fulfilled their ministry_[ministration] viz., the giving into the care of t...
DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA I. GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
_HEROD DIED A TERRIBLE DEATH ACTS 12:20-25:_ Herod was highly displeased with people of Tyre and Sidon. But their country got its food from the region that he ruled. Blastus, the king's chamberlain ha...
ΎΠΈΣΤΡΕΨΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΎΠΟΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G5290) возвращаться, ΠΛΗΡΏΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) наполнять, выполнять. Возможно, имеется в виду, что они взяли в Антиохии финансо...
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 and finished all their ministerial business...
25. This narrative concerning the death of James, the imprisonment of Peter, and the miserable death of Herod, is thrown in between the arrival of Paul and Barnabas on their mission to the poor saints...
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 impossi...
17 The death of James and the escape of Peter mark a crisis in the history of the kingdom proclamation. The power in Jerusalem passes out of the hands of the apostles into the hands of James, the Lord...
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 persecu...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 PETER IN PRISON AGAIN, 12:1-5 V1 At that time, King Herod arrested some members of the *church. He made them suffer very badly. V2 He ordered...
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, to this visit; but see Note there....
ὑπέστρεψαν ἐξ Ἱ., see critical notes, and Ramsay, _St. Paul_, pp. 63, 64, and note on Acts 22:17, below. πληρ. τὴν διακ.; if the visit extended over as long a period as Ramsay believes, _viz._, from t...
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. Rhoda is...
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 t...
Barnabas' and Saul's Special Work Once Barnabas and Saul had completed their task of delivering the gift for the needy saints in Jerusalem, they returned to Antioch. Barnabas' cousin, John Mark, also...
_Returned from Jerusalem, to Antioch, the capital of Syria. (Witham) --- This John Mark, the companion of Sts. Paul and Barnabas, was not the evangelist who bore that name; but a cousin of Barnabas, s...
By this time Barnabas and Saul have completed their tour to Jerusalem, bearing benefactions to the poor saints, and returned to Antioch, having brought with them John Mark, the subsequent amanuensis o...
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 reli...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
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 foretold t...
Herod, to please the Jews, begins to persecute the assembly in that city. We may remark here, that the company of believers at Antioch are also called the assembly (church), which is the case nowhere...
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, a...
_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. So...
BARNABAS AND SAUL RETURNED FROM JERUSALEM; they returned to Antioch. THEIR MINISTRY; the service for which they were sent. Chap Acts 11:30....
The judgment of God upon Herod:...
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 manifestly...
AND BARNABAS AND SAUL RETURNED FROM JERUSALEM WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED _THEIR_ MINISTRY, AND THEY ALSO TOOK WITH THEM JOHN WHOSE SURNAME WAS MARK. 1. Verse 25 is a transition statement. With the end o...
MINISTRY: Or, charge, Acts 11:29-30...
Barnabas and Saul come back from Jerusalem to Antioch with John Mark after spreading the relief funds that were mentioned in Acts 11:27-30. Thus now we are prepared for the first missionary journey th...
20-25 Many heathen princes claimed and received Divine honours, but it was far more horrible impiety in Herod, who knew the word and worship of the living God, to accept such idolatrous honours withou...
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 ministry or serv...
25. This narrative concerning the death of James, the imprisonment of Peter, and the miserable death of Herod, is thrown in between the arrival of Paul and Barnabas on their mission to the poor saints...
Acts 12:25 And G1161 Barnabas G921 and G2532 Saul G4569 returned G5290 (G5656) from G1537 Jerusalem G2419 fulfilled G4137 (G5660) ministry G1248 and G2532 them G4838 (G5631) John G2491 was G1941 (G568...
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.' Accepting t...
Acts 12:25. BARNABAS AND SAUL RETURNED FROM JERUSALEM WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED THEIR MINISTRY. The thread of the history is here taken up again from chap. Acts 11:30. Barnabas and Saul, after the predi...
FROM JERUSALEM (εξ Ιερουσαλημ). Probably correct text, though D has απο. Westcott and Hort follow Aleph B in reading εις (to) Jerusalem, an impossible reading contradicted by Acts 11:29; Acts 13:1....
CONTENTS: Persecutions of the church and arrest of Peter. Prayer for his deliverance and his miraculous release Death of Herod. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Herod, James, Peter, 2 soldiers, angel, Mary, Mark,...
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, _Hero...
FINISHED THEIR MISSION. Acts 11:30 tells what this mission was. TAKING JOHN MARK WITH THEM. He will go with Paul and Barnabas on their next tour of missions....
_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 at f...
JOHN MARK John, whose surname was Mark. Acts 12:25. At the time of Christ's death, there lived in Jerusalem a young man called John Mark. He lived with his mother, whose name was Mary, and he was k...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 12:25 THEIR SERVICE. That is, their famine relief journey to Jerusalem (see Acts 11:29). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, im...
_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” (Plumptre),...
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 interposition of th...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Acts 12. Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church (Acts 12:1). There are just a lot of Herods in the Bible and it i...
1 Peter 5:13; Acts 11:29; Acts 11:30; Acts 13:13; Acts 13:1; Acts 13:5; Acts 15:37; Acts 12:12...
HEROD'S DUPLICITY AND DEATH Acts 12:18 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 have seen...
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....