Acts 15:37-40
And went not with them; as related Acts 13:13,The contention. The historian leaves us uninformed in regard to the merits of this controversy. It is uncertain whether Paul was unreasonable or Mark unfaithful. Paul was afterwards reconciled to Mark, and sent for him to come to Rome. (2 Tim. 4:11.) The disposition of Barnabas to judge more leniently than Paul, in this case, may have arisen from the fact that Mark was his relative. (Col. 4:10.)
Silas; one of those who had been sent from Jerusalem with the letter. (v. 27.)
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