Acts 15:36 - Exposition

After some days for some days after, A.V. ; return now for go again, A.V. ; the brethren for our brethren, A.V. and T.R.; wherein we proclaimed for where we have preached, A.V.; fare for do, A.V. After some days is hardly equivalent to μετά τινας ἡμέρας . The expression in Greek is quite indefinite as to time, and may cover months as well as days. That it does cover a considerable length of time we gather from the expression in Acts 15:33 , that Judas and Silas "tarried some time at Jerusalem," followed by that in Acts 15:35 , that after their departure "Paul and Barnabas tarried ( διέτριβον ) in Antioch." We can hardly suppose the two periods together to have included much less than a year. Let us return , etc. The singular loving care of Paul for his young converts appears here.