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Thursday, August 20, 2026

Bible Study on Acts 12, verses 5 to 25, Peter has a miraculous escape

 


Acts 12:5 ¶  Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. 6  And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. 7  And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. 8  And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. 9  And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. 10  When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. 11  And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. 12  And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying. 13  And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. 14  And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate. 15  And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel. 16  But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished. 17  But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place. 18  Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. 19  And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.

 

Notice importantly first how God acted out of His own will but in concord with the prayers for Peter offered continuously. This is a lesson for us. As Paul said;

 

1Thessalonians 5:17  Pray without ceasing.

 

Peter was imprisoned about as secure as you can get chained between two of the soldiers. If they used four soldiers in a shift then the other two would have kept guard. But, even with this seemingly secure method of binding a prisoner an angel of the Lord, perhaps an appearance of Christ, came to him, shining a light, hit Peter in the side, and with Peter’s chains falling off he made his escape following the angel without disturbing the soldiers he had been chained to. Amazingly, even a gate opened to him of its own accord.

 

Peter must have been in a trance-like state being led by the angel. When he came to himself, got full control again of his faculties, he acknowledged who had delivered him and why.

 

He then came to Mary’s house, the mother of John Mark, probable author of the gospel that bears Mark’s name. Disciples were gathered there to pray. Peter banged on the gate door but Rhoda, recognizing Peter’s voice, was so beside HERself that she didn’t open the gate but ran to the disciples who insisted she was nuts as Peter was secure in prison or dead.

 

Verse 15 shows that these Jewish Christians knew something that most modern Christians don’t know. They knew what an angel was, an appearance of someone who is someplace else, probably even dead. It is not that person physically in the flesh they understood but his spiritual representative. We all have a spiritual representative operating in creation where we are not, in Heaven if we are here.

 

Psalm 104:4  Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

 

Daniel 9:21  Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

 

Luke 1:26  And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

 

Matthew 18:10  Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

 

Hebrews 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

 

Verse 17 can be confusing. There is a James, the brother of John, who was murdered by Herod.

 

Matthew 4:21  And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

 

There was James the son of Alphaeus.

 

Matthew 10:3  Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;

 

And Jesus’ brother James who most commentators say wrote the book of James.

 

Matthew 13:55  Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

 

Galatians 1:19  But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.

 

As was apparently customary guards who failed to keep a prisoner under custody, especially a noteworthy prisoner, allowing them to escape, could be put to death. Note the Philippian jailer’s terror at Paul’s deliverance when he thought Paul and company had escaped in Acts 16:25-34 which we will come to. He was ready to kill himself rather than suffer what would await him and perhaps even his family suggesting the prison was part of his home like in the ancient Egyptian Potiphar’s case of Joseph’s story. See Genesis 40:3 and context.

 

Acts 12:20 ¶  And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country. 21  And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. 22  And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23  And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. 24  But the word of God grew and multiplied. 25  And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.

 

There are other instances in history where men are said to be eaten of worms. In particular, the Roman historian, Plutarch, in his Lives of Illustrious Men notes that the Roman tyrant, Sylla, among others, suffered this fate. Similarly, in the Apocryphal book, Second Maccabees, the evil Antiochus Epiphanes suffers something very similar. This punishment, this judgment was swift and sudden and the wicked Herod went to Hell.

 

Still, God’s word produced much fruit and Barnabas and Saul took John Mark with them back to Antioch.

Bible Study on Exodus 18, verses 13 to 27, delegating responsibility

 


Exodus 18:13 ¶  And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening. 14  And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? 15  And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God: 16  When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 17  And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. 18  Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. 19  Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: 20  And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21  Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 22  And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee. 23  If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. 24  So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. 25  And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 26  And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27  And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

Here is a passage whose application is much disputed. Some will say that Moses was given good advice by Jethro and was wise in following it. Some will say that Moses should not have listened as he was the man God had placed the authority upon and the advice was from a man and not from God Himself. However, God confirmed that Moses delegating authority was truly a good idea.

Numbers 11:16 ¶  And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17  And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

In any event, without taking the time to make this study on Exodus a harmonization with the other books Moses wrote regarding when different events took place in relation to each other, Jethro has made it so that Moses is not spending all of his time judging petty disputes. When the Apostles of Christ were getting bogged down in administrative needs they elected Deacons to carry out those necessary things so they could devote themselves to the ministry of the word of God.

Acts 6:1 ¶  And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2  Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. 3  Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4  But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. 5  And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: 6  Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. 7  And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

An ability and a willingness to delegate responsibility and authority is the sign of a successful leader. The Bible seems to make that quite clear. To say that Moses’ following Jethro’s advice is the cause of all the later problems is to deny the wickedness of the human heart and say that people just need good, competent human leadership and they won’t go wrong, which is a denial of the reality, the truth, the Bible lays out for us to learn. That kind of thinking justifies every dictator and human tyrant that ever existed. No, the children of Israel went wrong because they did not trust God, nor fear Him, as they should have. It was their own wicked hearts that caused their problems, not a lack of leadership on Moses’ part.

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Bible Study on Acts 12, verses 1 to 4, King Herod makes a political calculation

 


Acts 12:1 ¶  Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 2  And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3  And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 4  And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

 

Herod, called Herod the Great, who finished the second temple, is reported to have died back in Matthew 2. This must be Herod the Tetrarch, who beheaded John the Baptist. He murders or orders murdered John’s brother James.

 

Matthew 4:21a  And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother…

 

Peter is arrested in the days of unleavened bread, the Passover celebration.

 

Luke 22:1  Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover…7  Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

 

We know from the gospels that this is when Jesus was crucified and rose again. So, this is the anniversary of Easter as well. Herod has several possible good reasons for not wanting to put him in front of the people, the rabble that demanded the crucifixion of Jesus until after these events. There is the danger of a riot demanding he be killed, first and foremost, for the Jews of this time needed very little reason to cause a civil disturbance. The anniversary of Christ’s death and resurrection was something that Herod wanted to put behind him before displaying his captive. Herod has authority over Galilee as per Luke 3 and Peter is a Galilean as per Mark 14:70 and other verses. Christianity was considered a sect that started in Galilee. Read Luke 23 and other passages regarding Jesus’ works in Galilee.

 

But verse 11 will show us that the concern is for the Jews and their reaction to Peter’s arrest.

 

A quaternion of soldiers were four soldiers with four of them being sixteen with each group of four taking a watch of the night and day as their turn possibly. Herod seriously was worried that either Christians would try to free Peter or a Jewish mob would attempt to murder him.

Bible Study on Exodus 18, verses 7 to 12, a happy reunion

 


Exodus 18:7 ¶  And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. 8  And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. 9  And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10  And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11  Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them. 12  And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.

Here we have some Near Eastern customs. Moses honors his father-in-law with honor and a kiss and polite conversation. There are cultures on earth today where it is not uncommon for men to great each other with a kiss on the cheek. Paul references such a greeting even though it is not customary in America, as we prefer a handshake. A chaste and non-sexual kiss is a form of greeting.

Romans 16:16  Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

1Corinthians 16:20  All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.

2Corinthians 13:12  Greet one another with an holy kiss.

1Thessalonians 5:26  Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

Let that be a warning to you not to let cultural customs in the Bible become spiritual dogma. I doubt a young man would ever get married if he insisted on waiting for a young woman to water his camels, as in Genesis 24, as a sign that God had sent her to him. Nor does a hair-style determine a woman’s relationship to God as an out-of-context reading of 1Corinthians 11 might suggest to the fundamentalist of today.

Moses did something for his father-in-law that the children of Israel failed to do for their children. He related what God had done for the children of Israel. This was something that the children of Israel did not do.

Judges 2:10  And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Here Jethro worships and honors Jehovah God as greater than all gods. This is the key element of Hebrew and Christian worship and understanding, and all of the monotheistic religions. It is a belief that the adherent is worshipping the supreme God of all. Then, the difference comes to arguments over His nature, His revelation of Himself, and His expectations of the obedient man or woman. But, here, even the pagan Jethro acknowledges that the God of the Hebrews is actually THE God. He has vanquished the gods of the Egyptians who had no power to withstand Him. In fact, He conquered not only any efforts they could have made, if they really existed, but He conquered the idea of gods, the concept of unseen theoretical entities that allow things to have mass or substitute dead particles such as photons for God’s Light, and all the vain imaginations of mankind.

Jehovah, the LORD, all capitals, whom Strong’s translates as, “the existing one,” is greater than all spiritual beings and all things real or imagined by men and women.

 1Kings 8:60  That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.

Isaiah 45:5  I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6  That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

We learned earlier that God simply is, and that is His name, I AM THAT I AM, or simply I AM. Science requires that if you put forth a proposition, a statement of presumed fact, that you should be able to make certain predictions from it. Genesis 1:1 says that God created the universe. So, one could logically assume that since an intelligent entity created everything that a certain degree of design and order must be present in it as in our experience order does not come from disorder without intelligent guidance. This is, indeed, the case. Physicists are looking for a unifying “theory of everything.” Well, it is right here in front of us. He is the God of the Bible. His existence explains everything.

Who is God? He is the uncreated person and entity who created all that is. He simply is, as He said Himself, I AM THAT I AM.

Exodus 3:13  And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14  And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

It is a nonsensical question to ask who created God. Such a question is a philosophical absurdity. It is like asking; could God create a rock so heavy He could not lift it? Such questions are the pure gibberish of the skeptic whose mind is blinded by the god of this world, Satan.

God is the source of all reality; seen and unseen. In Job God states that everything from dust forming into a clod of dirt in a farmer’s field to lions catching their prey, with the movements of distant galaxies to rain happening in places on earth where there is no man are all direct results of His direct actions. Read Job, chapter 38. God is not a watchmaker winding up the clock and walking away or standing to admire His work. He makes the hands move and the tick-tock sound is part of His second-by-second control of all events. So, Modernism, even with Christians since Isaac Newton, by reducing God to the ultimate first cause without an active role in every moment of our existence, is just simply one of the things that is in error about man’s thinking. Nothing happens by itself without direction, meaningless and pointless, a result of blind chance. Absolutely nothing.

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Bible Study on Acts 11, verses 27 to 30, a famine in Judea

 


Acts 11:27 ¶  And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. 28  And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. 29  Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: 30  Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

 

Roman writer Dio Cassius does refer to a severe famine in Claudius’ reign as much of the necessary foodstuff for Rome had to be imported, with Egypt being an important contributor of wheat. A general famine was devastating all around. Josephus, the Jewish general who allied himself with Roman general and future emperor, Titus, wrote of a famine in Judea in his Antiquities of the Jews. Claudius Caesar reigned from AD41 to 54, according to sources I read, although it is not an exact science lining up alleged dates in ancient history.

 

Here then is an example of churches helping each other which is an important practice for the New Testament church. Barnabas and Saul are sent to deliver this offering to the suffering Christians in Judea where the famine was particularly bad.

Bible Study on Exodus 18, verses 1 to 6, the priest of Midian and the Druze

 


Exodus 18:1 ¶  When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2  Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, 3  And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4  And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: 5  And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: 6  And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

Again, we get a bearing on where the Hebrews might be at this point. If you recall I suggested that Midian partly lay in what is now Tabuk province in Saudi Arabia, bordering the Gulf of Aqaba arm of the Red Sea. Eziongeber was on that arm of the Red Sea.

1Kings 9:26  And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.

            Jethro, Moses father-in-law, takes Moses’ wife and two sons, who had been sent home earlier apparently, to meet Moses and this vast assembly.

Jethro is not only the priest of Midian but he is a Kenite in tribal ethnicity.

Judges 1:16  And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

            He is considered the spiritual leader and chief prophet of the Druze religion of the Middle East and the Druze claim ancestry from him. The Druze religion is sort of a mixture of Islam, Greek philosophy, Hinduism, and Gnostic Christianity, which was a sort of occultic Christian philosophy. Of course, this definition oversimplifies it. They believe in reincarnation and the transmigration of the soul. They do not revere Christ as God in the flesh or believe in His resurrection so they are not Christians. However, Druze in Israel have been great supporters of the country and have risen to top positions in politics and public service. Many of them are known as Druze Zionists.

They come to Moses who is encamped at the mount of God. This is Horeb or Sinai.

1Kings 19:8  And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

Sinai was the name of the area.

Exodus 19:1  In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2  For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

So, Sinai and Horeb will be used interchangeably for the name of this mountain.

1Kings 8:9  There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 31:18  And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God…32:4  And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Psalm 106:19  They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

Malachi 4:4 ¶  Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Monday, August 17, 2026

Bible Study on Acts 11, verses 19 to 26, the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch

 


Acts 11:19 ¶  Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. 20  And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21  And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord. 22  Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch. 23  Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. 24  For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord. 25  Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: 26  And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

 

The phrase scattered abroad appears to be a reference to the Jews and Jewish Christians that were dispersed by persecution in various diasporas. It is used in John 11:52; Acts 8:1,4; and in James 1:1 although the phrase is also used in the Old Testament regarding the building of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:4, the Hebrews having to collect stubble for straw in Exodus 5:12, but also referring to the Jews in Esther 3:8.

 

Phenice was located on the island of Crete. Here it is not Phoenicia located in the vicinity of modern-day Lebanon although that has the same name. See chapter 15. The context is important.

 

Acts 27:12  And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.

 

Cyprus is an island in the Mediterranean. Cyrene was, according to most commentators, was located in North Africa in the northern part of present-day Libya.

 

The Christian community is growing now due to God’s work and Barnabas, extolled as a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and faith is sent by the elders at Jerusalem to Antioch. It is here that Christians are first called as such. God uses Barnabas to add much people to the Lord.

 

Antioch became known for its Christians’ literal interpretation of the Bible as opposed to Alexandria, Egypt’s Christian’s allegorical interpretation. One side says the Bible says what it says and the other side insists that what it says means something else. You decide which is a better bet.

 

Antioch will recommend Paul’s work among the Gentiles later. He spends a year here at Antioch teaching to the new Christians. What Bible classes they must have had!