Hechos 15:22

5. Results of the Council , Acts 15:22-36 .

22. Pleased it It was the pleasure or decree. This was one of the forms of passing a law. Apostles and elders seem to decree, the whole Church concurring.

Chosen men Who might testify for Jerusalem that she had received the delegates from Antioch with becoming honour, that the epistle from the Church was genuine, that its true meaning thus, and so that Antioch might be assured that Jerusalem reciprocates her sending of delegates.

Judas… Barsabas Mentioned here only.

Silas From Jerusalem now comes one destined to acquire the free progressive spirit of Gentile Antioch, and to be associated with Paul in his labour’s and trials, and to be recorded honourably in his epistles. In Paul’s epistles he uniformly receives his fuller Roman name, Sylvanus.