Acts 12

Acts 12:25

:TEXT: “Barnabas and Saul returned when they had fulfilled [their] ministry in Jerusalem” or “Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled [their] ministry”

S B P 81 1241 2495 Byz Lect syr(h)margin

ASVn RSVn NASVn NIVn NEBn TEVn RANK: DNOTES: “Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled [their] ministry”

\ D Psi \ 614 three lat vg syr(h) \

KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB : “Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem to Antioch when they had fulfilled [their] ministry”

E 323 \

The Greek preposition in the text (literally, “into”) can be taken either to mean “in” or “to.” If it means “in” it modifies “fulfilled”; if it means “to” it modifies “returned” and implies that Barnabas and Saul personally took the gift of relief to the elders in all the churches throughout Judea (Acts 11:29-30). Because chapter 13 opens with Barnabas and Saul at Antioch, many copyists expected the text to say that they left Jerusalem. Therefore they changed “into” to either “from” or “out of” (those manuscripts reading “out of” are enclosed in braces above) and some of them added “into Antioch.”