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Acts 9:27

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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John Chrysostom

AD 407

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.

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