Godbey's Commentary - Acts - Romans - Enter His Rest

immediately rots on the bones, spontaneously generating vermin, which utterly eat up the hopeless
victim. Thus God took away that awful scourge, who doubtless would have persisted in killing the
apostles and murdering the saints. No wonder the cause of God received a new impetus and
prospered.
25. 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 of Mark’s gospel. He was the nephew of Barnabas, (Colossians 4:10), who was very
anxious to make him very useful as a minister of the gospel.