Atos 15:34

34 [Mas pareceu bem a Silas ficar ali.]

Atos 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.

Atos 15:34 In-Context

32 Depois Judas e Silas, que também eram profetas, exortaram os irmãos com muitas palavras e os fortaleceram.

33 E, tendo-se demorado ali por algum tempo, foram pelos irmãos despedidos em paz, de volta aos que os haviam mandado.

34 [Mas pareceu bem a Silas ficar ali.]

35 Mas Paulo e Barnabé demoraram-se em Antioquia, ensinando e pregando com muitos outros a palavra do Senhor.

36 Decorridos alguns dias, disse Paulo a Barnabé: Tornemos a visitar os irmãos por todas as cidades em que temos anunciado a palavra do Senhor, para ver como vão.