Acts 15:34

34 Not with stondynge it pleasyd Sylas to abyde there still.

Acts 15:34 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 15:34

Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still
Though he had leave to go, and was actually dismissed with Judas; and doubtless intended to have gone with him, but for some reason or another he changed his mind, and thought fit to continue at Antioch some time longer: and the design of Providence in it seems to have been this; that he might be a companion with the Apostle Paul in his travels among the Gentiles, as he afterwards was, and was very useful to him. This verse is wanting in the Alexandrian copy, and in the Syriac and Arabic versions; the Ethiopic version reads, "and Paul proposed", or "determined to abide", as he did some little time longer, as appears from the following verse: the Vulgate Latin version here adds, and "Judas went alone to Jerusalem"; and so it is read in one of Beza's copies, and in one of Stephens's.

Acts 15:34 In-Context

32 And Iudas and Sylas beinge prophetes exhorted the brethren with moche preachynge and strengthed them.

33 And after they had taryed there a space they were let goo in peace of the brethren vnto the Apostles.

34 Not with stondynge it pleasyd Sylas to abyde there still.

35 Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioche teachynge and preachynge the worde of the Lorde with other many.

36 But after a certayne space Paul sayde vnto Barnabas: Let vs goo agayne and visite oure brethren in every cite where we have shewed the worde of the Lorde and se how they do.