Atti 15:34

34 E parve bene a Sila di rimaner quivi.

Atti 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.

Atti 15:34 In-Context

32 E Giuda e Sila, anch’essi, essendo profeti, con molte parole li esortarono e li confermarono.

33 E dopo che furon dimorati quivi alquanto tempo, furon dai fratelli congedati in pace perché se ne tornassero a quelli che li aveano inviati.

34 E parve bene a Sila di rimaner quivi.

35 Ma Paolo e Barnaba rimasero ad Antiochia insegnando ed evangelizzando, con molti altri ancora, la parola del Signore.

36 E dopo vari giorni, Paolo disse a Barnaba: Torniamo ora a visitare i fratelli in ogni città dove abbiamo annunziato la parola del Signore, per vedere come stanno.