[12] The dispute which arose resulted in a decision to send Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem, to seek a resolution to the issue.

He was the leader of the church in Jerusalem until he was stoned to death at the insistence of the high priest in 62 AD.

[21] Armed with the apostolic decree, Paul and Barnabas triumphantly returned to Antioch, accompanied by the Jerusalem delegates, Judas (surnamed Barsabbas) and Silas (verses 22, 32), who provided encouragement and strengthening (cf.

[2] This section opens the account of Paul's second journey (Acts 15:36–18:23), which started after an unspecified interval (verse 36: τινας ἡμέρας, tinas hēmeras, literally "some days"), and without the formal commissioning ceremony recorded for his first journey (Acts 13:3).

E. H. Plumptre refers to a "commonly received chronology" according to which the journey commenced "somewhat more than a year" after the Council held in Jerusalem.