Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with _many others_ also.--And some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren, in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.--And Barnabas determined to take with them John whose surname was Mark.--But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.--And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus;--And Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.--And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. With regard to Paul's separation from Barnabas, departure from Antioch, and taking Silas for a companion,--we have nothing from Paul himself: nothing, from any other source, than, as above, the Acts. In Paul's account, however, may be seen a passage, Gal. 2:13, by which some light is thrown upon the breach of Paul with Barnabas. In the Acts, though the _"contention" is said to be "sharp,"_ no cause is stated for it, other than a difference respecting the choice of a companion: namely, on an excursion, which they are represented as having agreed to make, in the company of each other, as before. But, according to Paul, he had had cause of complaint, against his old friend Barnabas, on another account. Barnabas had sided with the Apostles: Barnabas had been "carried away with their dissimulation"; by the dissimulation of those Apostles of Jesus, the virtuous simplicity of the self-constituted Apostle, so he desires his Galatian disciples to believe, had been foiled. SECTION 2. PAUL DISAGREES WITH PETER--AND BARNABAS--QUITS ANTIOCH, TAKING SILAS FROM THE APOSTLES.