Peter gave in to their criticism and stopped eating with the Gentiles. Later on, Paul requested Barnabas to accompany him on another journey. Barnabas wanted to tag John Mark along, but Paul was against it. This dispute resulted in Paul and Barnabas going to different routes. Barnabas tagged John Mark along and headed to Cyprus while Paul, concerned by the stance Barnabas and Peter had taken against the Gentiles, took Silas as his companion, and went to Syria and Cilicia.
Paul felt that stance would negatively influence his evangelization work among the Gentiles. Traditional accounts hold that his parents sent him to study in Jerusalem, where he studied at the school of Gamaliel who also taught St.
Later on, when Christ's public ministry began, Barnabas may have been among those who heard him preach in person. At some point, either during Christ's ministry or after his death and resurrection, Barnabas decided to commit himself in the most radical way to the teachings he had received.
He sold the large estate he had inherited, contributed the proceeds entirely to the Church, and joined Christ's other apostles in holding all of their possessions in common. Saul of Tarsus, the future St. Paul, approached Barnabas after the miraculous events surrounding his conversion, and was first introduced to St.
Peter through him. Barnabas and Paul left Antioch along with Barnabas' cousin John Mark, who would later compose the most concise account of Christ's life and be canonized as St. The group's first forays into the pagan world met with some success, but Mark became discouraged and returned to Jerusalem. The question of Mark's dedication to the mission would arise again later, and cause a significant personal disagreement between Paul and Barnabas. But all was not peaceful.
They were expelled from one town, they had to go to Jerusalem to clear up the ever-recurring controversy about circumcision, and even the best of friends can have differences. When Paul wanted to revisit the places they had evangelized, Barnabas wanted to take along his cousin John Mark, author of the Gospel , but Paul insisted that since Mark had deserted them once, he was not fit to take along now.
Paul , ranked by the Church with the Twelve, though not one of them; b. A Levite , he naturally spent much time in Jerusalem , probably even before the Crucifixion of Our Lord , and appears also to have settled there where his relatives, the family of Mark the Evangelist , likewise had their homes — Acts and to have owned land in its vicinity The Apostles, probably because of his success as a preacher, for he is later placed first among the prophets and doctors of Antioch xiii, 1 , surnamed him Barnabas, a name then interpreted as meaning "son of exhortation" or "consolation".
The real etymology, however, is disputed. See Encyl. Though nothing is recorded of Barnabas for some years, he evidently acquired during this period a high position in the Church. When Saul the persecutor, later Paul the Apostle, made his first visit dated variously from A. Barnabas stood sponsor for him and had him received by the Apostles , as the Acts relate , though he saw only Peter and James, the brother of the Lord, according to Paul himself Galatians Saul went to his house at Tarsus to live in obscurity for some years, while Barnabas appears to have remained at Jerusalem.
The event that brought them together again and opened to both the door to their lifework was an indirect result of Saul's own persecution. In the dispersion that followed Stephen's death, some Disciples from Cyprus and Cyrene, obscure men, inaugurated the real mission of the Christian Church by preaching to the Gentiles.
They met with great success among the Greeks at Antioch in Syria , reports of which coming to the ears of the Apostles, Barnabas was sent thither by them to investigate the work of his countrymen. He saw in the conversions effected the fruit of God's grace and, though a Jew , heartily welcomed these first Gentile converts. His mind was opened at once to the possibility of this immense field.
It is a proof how deeply impressed Barnabas had been by Paul that he thought of him immediately for this work, set out without delay for distant Tarsus, and persuaded Paul to go to Antioch and begin the work of preaching. This incident, shedding light on the character of each, shows it was no mere accident that led them to the Gentile field. Together they laboured at Antioch for a whole year and "taught a great multitude".
Then, on the coming of famine, by which Jerusalem was much afflicted, the offerings of the Disciples at Antioch were carried about A. Their mission ended, they returned to Antioch , bringing with them the cousin, or nephew of Barnabas Colossians , John Mark , the future Evangelist Acts
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