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12:25 Saul returned - To Antioch; taking John, surnamed Mark - The son of Mary, (at whose house the disciples met, to pray for Peter,) who was sister to Barnabas.

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13:1 Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod - His foster brother, now freed from the temptations of a court.

13:2 Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them - This was not ordaining them. St. Paul was ordained long before, and that not of men, neither by man: it was only inducting him to the province for which our Lord had appointed him from the beginning, and which was now revealed to the prophets and teachers. In consequence of this they fasted, prayed, and laid their hands on them, a rite which was used not in ordination only, but in blessing, and on many other occasions.

13:3 Then having fasted - Again. Thus they did also, Act 14:23.

13:5 In the synagogues - Using all opportunities that offered.

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12:44 Jesus said with a loud voice - This which follows to the end of the chapter, is with St. John the epilogue of our Lord's public discourses, and a kind of recapitulation of them.Believeth not on me - Not on me alone, but also on him that sent me: because the Father hath sent the Son, and because he and the Father are one.

12:45 And he that seeth me - By the eye of faith.

12:47 I judge him not - Not now: for I am not come to judge the world.See, Christ came to save even them that finally perish! Even these are a part of that world, which he lived and died to save.

12:50 His commandment - Kept, is life everlasting - That is the way to it, and the beginning of it.