Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 15:39
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Acts15:39
39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: And so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
As Abraham and Lot parted, Gen. 13.9. yet keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace; loving of▪ and praying for one another; as we may judg, being both good Men. But they verified here what they had said at Lystra, Chap. 14.15. we are men of like passions with you ▪ yet God over-ruled these very divisions betwixt Paul and Barnabas, for his own Glory, and the inlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Several places being by this means blessed with the Gospel. And this reflection upon this Iohn Mark, is thought to have made him for the future more diligent and valiant in the cause of the Gospel, which occasioned that kind Salutation from St. Paul unto him, Coloss. 4.10.
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