37 [a]And Barnabas counseled to take with them John, called Mark.

38 But Paul thought it not meet to take him unto their company, which departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

39 [b]Then were they so [c]stirred, that they departed asunder one from the other, so that Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 15:37 A lamentable example of discord between excellent men and very great friends, yet not for profane or their private affairs, neither yet for doctrine.
  2. Acts 15:39 God useth the faults of his servants to the profit and building of his Church, yet we have to take heed, even in the best matters that we pass not measure in our heat.
  3. Acts 15:39 They were in great heat: but herein we have to consider the force of God’s counsel: for by this means it came to pass, that the doctrine of the Gospel was exercised in many places.

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