Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 15]
participle of \epileg•\, choosing for himself, as the successor
of Barnabas, not of Mark who had no place in Paul's plans at this
time. {Commended} (\paradotheis\). First aorist passive of
\paradid•mi\, the same verb employed about Paul and Barnabas
(14:26) on their return from the first tour. It is clear now
that the sympathy of the church at Antioch is with Paul rather
than with Barnabas in the cleavage that has come. The church
probably recalled how in the pinch Barnabas flickered and went to
the side of Peter and that it was Paul who for the moment stood
_Paulus contra mundum_ for Gentile liberty in Christ against the
threat of the Judaizers from Jerusalem. Silas had influence in
the church in Jerusalem (verse 22) and was apparently a Roman
citizen (16:37) also. He is the Silas or Silvanus of the
epistles (1Th 1:1; 2Th 1:1; 2Co 1:19; 1Pe 5:12). It is
remarkable that Peter mentions both Mark and Silas as with him
(1Pe 5:12f.) at the same time.
15:41 {Went through} (\di•rcheto\). Imperfect middle. So Paul
went forth on his second mission tour with heart-aches and high
hopes mingled together. {Syria and Cilicia} (\t•n Surian kai t•n
Kilikian\). He took the opposite course from the first tour,
leaving Cyprus to Barnabas and Mark. Probably Paul had
established these churches while in Tarsus after leaving
Jerusalem (Ac 9:30; Ga 1:21). Paul would go "by the Gulf of
Issus through the Syrian Gates, a narrow road between steep rocks
and the sea, and then inland, probably past Tarsus and over Mt.
Taurus by the Cilician gates" (Page). This second tour will
occupy Luke's story in Acts through 18:22.
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Word Pictures in the New Testament
(Acts: Chapter 15)