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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 15:22 - 15:22
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Judas surnamed Barsabas - therefore not the apostle “Judas the brother of James” (Act 1:13), surnamed “Thaddeus” (Mat 10:3); nor can it be shown that he was a brother of “Joseph called Barsabas” (Act 1:23). But nothing is known of him beyond what is here said.
and Silas - the same as “Silvanus” in the Epistles. He became Paul’s companion on his second missionary journey (Act 15:40).
chief men among the brethren - selected purposely as such, to express the honor in which they held the church at Antioch, and the deputies they had sent to the council, and, as the matter affected all Gentile converts, to give weight to the written decision of this important assembly. They were “prophets,” Act 15:32 (and see on Act 11:27), and as such doubtless their eminence in the church at Jerusalem had been obtained.