Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: This chapter mentions the following places: Some church members, identified as 'circumcised believers' (Acts 11:2), objected to the reception of Gentiles into the church, using precisely the kind of 'discrimination' that Peter was warned against in Acts 10:20 (cf.

[5] These six fellow believers are not identified, but John Gill suggests it was "a very wise and prudential step" on Peter's part to take them with him from Joppa to Caesarea and from there to Jerusalem, anticipating that once in Jerusalem he might "be called to an account for his conduct".

It then focuses on the development of the early church in Antioch in Syria (c. 300 miles (480 km) north of Jerusalem).

[5] The apostles reacted to the news (verse 22) similar to that in Acts 8:14, but this time they first sent Barnabas (introduced in Acts 4:36) who plays important roles as the liaison to the church in Jerusalem and as the one who brings Saul (or Paul) from Tarsus (verses 25–26) to spend a year quietly engaged in 'teaching'.

[5] The sending of help for the famine in Judea (during the reign of Claudius, 41-54 CE) raises up some historical difficulties:[5]