Acts 4:36

And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, AND JOSES, This reading is in no uncial manuscript. The true reading is evidently 'Joseph:' WHO BY THE APOSTLES WAS SURNAMED BARNABAS, (WHICH IS, BEING INTERPRETED, THE SON OF CONSOLATION,) [ parakleeseoos (G3874)], or, perhaps, 'exhortation,' as the word more directly signifies, and more usually means in the New Testament (perhaps corresponding to bar (H1247) nªbuw'aah (H5016), 'son of prophecy,' as Grotius suggests). If this be the thing intended, the name may have been intended to denote his warm, loving, and successful preachin...

32-37 The disciples loved one another. This was the blessed fruit of Christ's dying precept to his disciples, and his dying prayer for them. Thus it was then, and it will be so again, when the Spirit shall be poured upon us from on high. The doctrine preached was the resurrection of Christ; a matter of fact, which being duly explained, was a summary of all the duties, privileges, and comforts of Christians. There were evident fruits of Christ's grace in all they said and did. They were dead to this world. This was a great evidence of the grace of God in them. They did not take away others' property, but they were indifferent to it. They did not call it their own; because they had, in affection, forsaken all for Christ, and were expecting to be stripped of all for cleaving to him. No marvel that they were of one heart and soul, when they sat so loose to the wealth of this world. In effec...

Verse Acts 4:36. _JOSES_] Or, _Joseph_, as many excellent MSS. read; but who he was, farther than what is here said, we know not. _SURNAMED BARNABAS_] Or, _Barsabbas_, according to the _Coptic_. _THE SON OF CONSOLATION_] υιοςπαρακλησεως; As παρακλησις signifies _exhortation_, as well as _consolation_, and is indeed distinguished from the latter, 1 Corinthians 14:3, the original name was probably בר נבא _Bar naba_, or בר נביא _Bar nebia_, which signifies the _son of prophecy_ or _exhortation_; and this is certainly one sense which _prophecy_ has in the New Testament; and in this way Barnabas distinguished himself among the apostles. See...

AND JOSES - Many manuscripts, instead of “Joses,” here read “Joseph.” The reasons why this individual is selected and specified particularly were, doubtless, because he was a foreigner; because it was a remarkable instance of liberality; and because he subsequently distinguished himself in the work of the ministry. He gave himself, his property, his all, to the service of the Lord Jesus, and went forth to the self-denying labors of the gospel. He is mentioned elsewhere with honor in the New Testament Acts 11:24, Acts 11:30, and usually as the companion of the apostle Paul. The occasion on which he became connected with Paul in the ministry was when he himself was sent forth by the church at Jerusalem to Antioch. There, it seems, he heard of the fame of Paul and went to Tarsus to seek h

EXPOSITION ACTS 4:1 THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE. Only here and Acts 5:24, and Luke 22:4, Luke 22:52 in the plural some have thought that the commander of the Roman garrison of the castle of Antonia is here meant. But as the scene is laid in the court of the temple, this is very improbable. Josephus ('Ant. Jud.,' 20, Luke 6:2) speaks of an officer apparently of the temple, who was called ὁ στρατηγός, and was certainly a Jew by his name Ananus, and being, as Josephus relates farther ('Bell Jud.,' 2, 12. 6), the son of the high priest Ana

AND JOSES,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, read "Joseph", and so do Beza's most ancient copy, and two of his manuscripts, and the Alexandrian copy, and others; for "Jose", or "Joses", is only an abbreviation or contraction of "Joseph"; though according to others it is the same with "Josiah": there is one of this name, who was the sort of Alphaeus, and brother to two of the apostles, James and Jude, Matthew 13:55 and another called "Joses Barsabas"; and it may be to distinguish the one from the other this is called "Joses Barnabas"; for so it follows, WHO BY THE APOSTLES WAS SURNAMED BARNABAS: his name before his conversion was "Joses", or "Joseph", or "Josiah"; and afterwards, or at least after he came to be acquainted with the apostles, and to be in their company, they called him "Barnabas", The Arabic and Ethiopic versions read, "who was of the a

ACTS 4:36 VIwsh,f The Textus Receptus, following P Y 1 33 69 326 440 522 623 920 1611 1827 _al,_ reads VIwsh/j, a spelling that reflects the tendency to replace a non-Greek ending (&f) with one more congenial to Byzantine scribes....

CHAPTER 4 __ 1. Their Arrest (Acts 4:1). 2. The Result of the Testimony (Acts 4:4). 3. Peter and John before the Rulers and Elders (Acts 4:5). 4. Peter's bold witness (Acts 4:8). 5. The astonished Sanhedrin and their Release (Acts 4:13). 6. With their own company (Acts 4:23). 7. The saved multitude (Acts 4:32). The enemy begins now his acts, and the first indication is gi

ACTS 4:36 TO ACTS 5:11. COMMUNITY OF GOODS AMONG THE FIRST CHRISTIANS. Acts 4:36 f. The Case of Joses Barnabas. Joses is not again heard of in the NT under this name, but always under his other name, Barnabas, a translation of which is offered, but one with which scholars are not satisfied. It connects him with prophetic functions (_Nabi,_ a prophet) and consolation is one of these. He is Paul's companion in his first journey, but Paul excels him as a speaker (Acts 14:12); and he is a person whom the Galatians and Corinthians know well (Galatians 2:13;...

ARREST (Acts 4:1-4)...