Acts Chapter 11 verse 30 Holy Bible
which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
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Which they did, sending it to the rulers of the church by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
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which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
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Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - Sending for and sent, A.V.; hand for hands, A.V. Sending (ἀποστείλαντες᾿. Those by whom they sent were ἀπόστολοι (2 Corinthians 8:23), messengers, or apostles, To the elders. This is the first mention of presbyters, or elders, in the Church at Jerusalem, which was now fully organized. James the Less was the resident apostle (?) and bishop; with him were the presbyters (Acts 21:18); and under them again the seven deacons (Acts 6:5, 6). The presbyters of the Church of Jerusalem are mentioned again in Acts 15:2, 4, 6, 22, 23; Acts 16:4; Acts 21:18; James 5:13, where, however, the elders of other Churches in Judaea may possibly be included. A difficulty arises with regard to Saul's mission to Jerusalem with Barnabas, as to how to reconcile it with Galatians 2:1, which speaks of St. Paul's second visit to Jerusalem as taking place fourteen years after his first, whereas this visit could not be above four or five years after. But there are three hypotheses about the visit to Jerusalem referred to in Galatians 2. 1. The first identifies it with the visit here recorded. 2. The second identifies it with that related in Acts 15:2, etc., which is supported by most of the best authorities ancient and modern (see note on Acts 15.). 3. The third, which is advocated by Lewin ('Life of St. Paul,' vol. 1:302, etc.), identifies it with the visit recorded in Acts 18:22. As regards the first, with which we are now concerned, though at first sight you would have ex-peered St. Paul's next visit to Jerusalem after his conversion to be the one alluded to in Galatians it., yet the following circumstances make this impossible. . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) And sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.--The elders of the Church are here named for the first time, and appear henceforth as a permanent element of its organisation, which in this respect followed the arrangements of the Synagogue. Officers filling like functions were known in the Gentile churches as Episcopi = Bishops, or Superintendents, and where Jews and Gentiles were mingled, the two names were interchangeable, as in Acts 20:17-18; Titus 1:5; Titus 1:7. See also Notes on Philippians 1:1; 1Peter 5:1-2. In St. James's Epistle (James 5:14), written probably about this time, the "elders" are mentioned as visiting the sick, and anointing them with oil as a means of healing. . . .
