Teks -- Acts 12:25 (NET)

12:25 So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had completed their mission, bringing along with them John Mark.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Act 12:25 - From Jerusalem

From Jerusalem ( exō Ierousalēm ).

Probably correct text, though D has apo . Westcott and Hort follow Aleph B in reading eis (to) Jerusalem, an impossible reading contradicted by Act 11:29.; Act 13:1. The ministration (diakonian ) referred to is that in Act 11:29. which may have taken place, in point of time, after the death of Herod.

Robertson: Act 12:25 - Taking with them

Taking with them ( sunparalabontes ).

Taking along (para ) with (sun ) them, John Mark from Jerusalem (Act 12:12) to Antioch (Act 13:1). The aorist participle does not express subsequent action as Rackham here argues (Robertson, Grammar , pp. 861-863).

Wesley: Act 12:25 - 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.

JFB: Act 12:25 - Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem

Where, it thus appears, they had remained during all this persecution.

JFB: Act 12:25 - when they had fulfilled their ministry

Or service; that mentioned on Act 11:29-30.

JFB: Act 12:25 - took with them John . . . Mark

(See on Act 12:12), not to be confounded with the second Evangelist, as is often done. As his uncle was Barnabas, so his spiritual father was Peter (1Pe 5:13).

PAUL'S FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY:

In Company with Barnabas.

Clarke: Act 12:25 - Returned from Jerusalem

Returned from Jerusalem - That is, to Antioch, after the death of Herod

Clarke: Act 12:25 - When they had fulfilled their ministry

When they had fulfilled their ministry - When they had carried the alms of the Christians at Antioch to the poor saints at Jerusalem, according to what is mentioned, Act 11:29, Act 11:30, to support them in the time of the coming famine

Clarke: Act 12:25 - And took with them John, whose surname was Mark

And took with them John, whose surname was Mark - This was the son of Mary, mentioned Act 12:12. He accompanied the apostles to Cyprus, and afterwards in several of their voyages, till they came to Perga in Pamphylia. Finding them about to take a more extensive voyage, he departed from them. See the case, Act 13:13; Act 15:37-40

1.    When the nature, spirit, and tendency of Christianity are considered, we may well be astonished that it should ever find a persecutor among the souls it was designed to instruct and save! Devils can have no part in it, and therefore we may naturally expect them, through envy and malice, to oppose it; but that men, for whose use and salvation the wisdom and mercy of God made it, should reject its offers of mercy, and persecute to death those who proclaimed it, is the most unaccountable thing that can be conceived. What a proof is this of mere maliciousness, where the persecutor not only serves no self-interest by it, but destroys, as far as he can, all that could promote his own present and eternal happiness! This argues such blindness of understanding, hardness of heart, and derangement of mind, as can be accounted for only on the supposition of a nature totally fallen from God, righteousness, and truth. The Jews crucify Christ, and martyr Stephen; and Herod murders James; and both join together to persecute the followers of Christ and destroy his cause. Reader, consider the consequences: this bad people were permitted to remain till they had filled up the measure of their iniquity, and were then cut of by a most terrible judgment; and Herod was visited for his transgressions in such a most awful way as strongly marked the displeasure of God against persecutors. If a man contend with a man, the contest is in a certain way equal - the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth; but when a man enters the lists against his Maker, as every persecutor does, wo unto that man! - he must be torn in pieces, when there is none to deliver

2.    How true is the saying, there is neither counsel nor might against the Lord! In the midst of all troubles and afflictions, that kingdom of heaven which is like a grain of mustard seed grew and increased, and became a mighty tree which is now filling the whole earth, and fowl of every wing are flying to lodge in its branches. Ride on, and be thou prosperous, O Christ! We wish thee good luck with thine honor.

Calvin: Act 12:25 - And Barnabas and Paul

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 the famine and barrenness, the brethren gathered money at Antioch, whereby they might relieve the necessity of the church which was at Jerusalem; the carrying of this money was committed to Barnabas and Paul. Now Luke saith that they returned to Antioch, that he may pass over unto a new history. He addeth, that they took with them John, whose surname was Mark, whose mother was honorably commended before, that he might keep them company, who was afterward, as we shall see, a cause of grievous and dangerous [hurtful] discord between them.

Defender: Act 12:25 - returned from Jerusalem

Barnabas and Saul had been sent to Jerusalem by the church at Antioch, bringing material aid to the Christians there during the hard times occasioned by the recent famine (Act 11:27-30). Whether they were with the believers praying for Peter in Mark's home is not stated, but it is there they must have counseled with Mark and decided to take him back to Antioch with them.

Defender: Act 12:25 - John

John Mark was a nephew of Barnabas (although some say he was a cousin - Col 4:10) and evidently a close friend of Peter (the early church fathers said much of what Mark wrote in his gospel was obtained from Peter). He probably was a Levite, like his uncle and thus well instructed in the Scriptures, as well as from a prosperous family (Act 4:36)."

TSK: Act 12:25 - Barnabas // ministry // took // John

Barnabas : Act 11:29, Act 11:30, Act 13:1-3

ministry : or, charge

took : Act 13:5, Act 13:13, Act 15:37

John : Act 12:12; 1Pe 5:13

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 12:25 - From Jerusalem // Their ministry // John

From Jerusalem they returned unto Antioch, from whence they were sent, Act 11:26,30 , to carry the benevolence of the church of Antioch to that of Judea.

Their ministry this was the ministry or service they were appointed to do.

John of whom before, Act 12:12 .

Haydock: Act 12:25 - Returned from Jerusalem

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, son of Mary, in whose house the apostles generally assembled at Jerusalem. (Calmet)

Gill: Act 12:25 - 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,.... 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, and thither they returned, for we find them there in the beginning of the next chapter:

when they had fulfilled their ministry; which was the carrying the relief, or the money collected by the Christians at Antioch, for the brethren in Judea, on account of the famine that was there:

and took with them John, whose surname was Mark: the son of Mary, at whose house the disciples were met together, and praying; and where Peter first went, after he was delivered from prison, Act 12:12 him they brought with them from Jerusalem to Antioch, being a kinsman of Barnabas; and a man of promising gifts and usefulness, and judged to be a fit companion with them in their travels, for the spread of the Gospel.