Acts 12:25

25 So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem [when they] had completed [their] service, having taken along with [them] John (who is also called Mark).

Acts 12:25 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 12:25

And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem
Two of Beza's exemplars, the Complutensian edition and the Syriac version, add, "unto Antioch"; and certain it is, that from thence they were sent, and thither they returned, for we find them there in the beginning of the next chapter:

when they had fulfilled their ministry;
which was the carrying the relief, or the money collected by the Christians at Antioch, for the brethren in Judea, on account of the famine that was there:

and took with them John, whose surname was Mark:
the son of Mary, at whose house the disciples were met together, and praying; and where Peter first went, after he was delivered from prison, ( Acts 12:12 ) him they brought with them from Jerusalem to Antioch, being a kinsman of Barnabas; and a man of promising gifts and usefulness, and judged to be a fit companion with them in their travels, for the spread of the Gospel.

Acts 12:25 In-Context

23 And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down {because} he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms [and] died.

24 But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.

25 So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem [when they] had completed [their] service, having taken along with [them] John (who is also called Mark).

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts read "from"
• [b]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had completed") which is understood as temporal
• [c]. *Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
• [d]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation