Acts 13:1 · World English Bible
Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Brought up with renders a court term for a boy raised beside a royal son, and Manaen came from Herod's household. He teaches beside Barnabas from Cyprus, Lucius of Cyrene, and a man nicknamed with the Latin word for black.
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PROTESTANT
Brought up with renders a court term for a boy raised beside a royal son, and Manaen came from Herod's household. He teaches beside Barnabas from Cyprus, Lucius of Cyrene, and a man nicknamed with the Latin word for black.
Antioch sorted its peoples into separate quarters; one congregation here did not. Prophets carried messages God gave them, teachers explained what had already been given, and both jobs rested on God's word rather than on a family line. Saul stands last, still under the name he carried while jailing believers, and Antioch had him teaching anyway.
ORTHODOX
Grace works with a life exactly as it happened. A man raised beside a ruler, another from North Africa, and one who had lately hunted believers stand in the same small circle, each keeping their own name and history. The Spirit builds one household out of people who would never have chosen each other.
Authority in the Church rests on several together rather than one voice. Gifts are given into a body and recognized there before anyone is sent out with them, so the calling of a teacher is never a private matter between a soul and God.
Protestant lens
Who has earned a place at your table that you are still keeping in a separate quarter?
Do not look at the jar, look at what is in it, since new wine can sit in an old vessel and old wine in a new one. The container tells you nothing about the contents.
He said there are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground, and the people doing it come from everywhere. The ground does not ask where they were born.
A teacher's authority rests on seeing clearly, not on his lineage papers, and students have been sent away with perfect credentials. What you actually see is the qualification.
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