Acts 13:5
And when they were come to Salamina, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also in the ministry.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et cum venissent Salaminam, prædicabant verbum Dei in synagogis Judæorum. Habebant autem et Joannem in ministerio.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καὶ γενόμενοι ἐν Σαλαμῖνι κατήγγελλον τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων· εἶχον δὲ καὶ Ἰωάννην ὑπηρέτην.
Haydock's commentary
In the synagogues of the Jews, preaching first the gospel to them. (Witham)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Dionysius of Alexandria Extant Fragments, Section I
5. What John this is, however, is uncertain. For he has not said, as he often does in the Gospel, that he is the disciple beloved by the Lord, or the one that leaned on His bosom, or the brother of James, or one that was privileged to see and hear the Lord. And surely he would have given us some of these indications if it had been his purpose to make himself clearly known. But of all this he offers us nothing; and he only calls himself our brother and companion, and the witness of Jesus, and one blessed with the seeing and hearing of these revelations. …
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XXVIII on Acts xiii. 4, 5
Acts XIII. 4, 5 “So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.”
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XXVIII on Acts xiii. 4, 5
(Recapitulation.) “And when they were come to Salamis,” the metropolis of Cyprus, “they preached the word of God.” ( v. 5 .) They had spent a year in Antioch: it behooved that they should go hither also (to Cyprus) and not sit permanently where they were (the converts in Cyprus): needed greater teachers. See too how they remain no time in Seleucia, knowing that (the people there) might have reaped much benefit from the neighboring city (of Antioch): but they hasten on to the more pressing duties. When they came to the metropolis of the island, they were earnest to disabuse ( διορθωσαι ) the proconsul. But that it is no flattery that (the writer) says, “he was with the proconsul, a prudent man” ( v. 7 ), you may learn from the facts; for he needed not many discourses, and himself wished to hear them. And he mentions also the names. …
Eusebius The Church History of Eusebius, The Apocalypse of John
15. For example, there is also another John, surnamed Mark, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, whom Barnabas and Paul took with them; of whom also it is said, ‘And they had also John as their attendant.’ But that it is he who wrote this, I would not say. For it not written that he went with them into Asia, but, ‘Now when Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.’
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).