{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2571","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Cassiodorus</b>: \"Now when Paul and they that were with him had sailed from Paphos,\" etc. When Paul and Barnabas had sailed from Paphos with the rest who had come with them, they came to Perge in Pamphilia, and passed through it. John, departing from them at Perge, returned to Jerusalem. Paul and Barnabas, walking through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia. Entering the synagogue there, they listened to a reading of the prophets and the law. The rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying that, if any one of them had a word of exhortation, he should speak, just as they did in other cities, where the truth they spoke was believed. Then Paul, having obtained silence with a gesture of his hand, preached the Lord Christ's doctrine to the people, explaining what was said with the testimonies of the prophets in order to bring the people to the fullest faith by revealing the truth; assuring them that the Lord Christ was the only one who justified the severity of the law by the gift of his grace; telling them they should be careful, as the Scripture warns, not to refuse to believe what the truth itself was known to tell them.<br/><i>— Complexiones on the Acts of the Apostles</i></p><p><b>Dionysius of Alexandria</b>: There is, besides, another John mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, with the surname Mark, whom Barnabas and Paul attached to themselves as companion, and of whom again it is said: \"And they had also John to their minister.\" But whether this is the one who wrote the Revelation, I could not say. For it is not written that he came with them into Asia. But the writer says: \"Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.\" I think, therefore, that it was some other one of those who were in Asia. For it is said that there were two monuments in Ephesus, and that each of these bears the name of John.<br/><i>— Containing Various Sections of the Works, On the Authorship of Revelation</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.\" And here again they entered the synagogues, in the character of Jews, that they might not be treated as enemies, and be driven away: and in this way they carried the whole matter successfully.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 28</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And (Paul) said not to the sorcerer, \"Wilt thou not cease to pervert\" the proconsul? What may be the reason of John's going back from them? For \"John,\" it says, \"departing from them returned to Jerusalem\": (he does it) because they are undertaking a still longer journey: and yet he was their attendant, and as for the danger, they incurred it (not he).-Again, when they were come to Perga, they hastily passed by the other cities, for they were in haste to the metropolis, Antioch.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 28</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"John, having withdrawn.\" This is John, also called Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, who also wrote the Gospel according to Mark and was a disciple of Peter the chief, of whom he says in the Epistle: \"Mark my son greets you.\" (1 Peter 5:13) Therefore this man, since the journey concerning Paul was to be prolonged, withdrew from them, although being a servant, because he would not undergo the dangers. [CHRYSOSTOM]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e8f37ecdf8ce82e3bd0886192534cd317bfb6b77a2ebdfca88f17dcdf3a19074","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2571,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"45cc677596752dc137545851d9b3c83a7418bb97455c37d5e793f35a36c87475","translator":null,"work":null}