But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Brought him to the apostles Peter and James. See Galatians i. 18. and 19.
it seems to me that Barnabas was of old a friend of his— and related, etc.: observe how Paul says nothing of all this himself: nor would he have brought it forward to the others, had he not been compelled to do so. And he was with them, coming in and going out at Jerusalem, and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. (v. 28, 29.) This gave them all confidence. But they went about to slay him: which when the brethren knew etc.
One may well be much at a loss here to understand how it is that, whereas in the Epistle to the Galatians Paul says, I went not to Jerusalem, but into Arabia and to Damascus, and, After three years I went up to Jerusalem, and to see Peter , (ἱ στορἥσαι Cat.) here the writer says the contrary. (There, Paul says,) And none of the Apostles saw I; but here, it is said (Barnabas), brought him to the Apostles.— Well, then, either (Paul) means, I went not up with intent to refer or attach myself to them (ἀ ναθέσθαι)— for what says he? I referred not myself, neither went I to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me: or else, that the laying await for him in Damascus was after his return from Arabia; or else, again, that the visit to Jerusalem was after he came from Arabia. Certainly of his own accord he went not to the Apostles, but assayed to join himself unto the disciples— as being a teacher, not a disciple— I went not, he says, for this purpose, that I should go to those who were Ap...
