If the church in Jerusalem was hesitant to accept Paul some three years after his conversion(Acts 9:26- 30), one can imagine what questions and concerns filled the hearts of the believers in Damascus only days after the event!
This warning reflects not only the confrontation with Jewish radicals who accused the group of traitor, because they had escaped from Jerusalem before being surrounded by the Roman army but also the infighting between Hellenists and Hebraists which became manifest from the inception of Jerusalem Church's inauguration.
Ironically, Paul himself was later to be arrested by the accusation of these Greek-speaking Jewish fundamentalists and the mainstream of Jerusalem Church did not take remedial action and remained on the sidelines, just as they had done so when Stephen had been martyred.
Although both the members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen-Jews and the Jerusalem Church were supported by the House of Hanan, the incumbent high priest at that time was Ananias, son of Nedebaios, who had been appointed to the high priest(46-52) by Herod King of Chalcis(41-48) and did not belong to the House of Hanan.
It is understood that not only the mainstream of Jerusalem Church, who hoped to avoid to split up, but also the most of Hellenic believers agreed to the plan. However, still some Hellenic believers, who donated the enormous personal fortune to the church, like Barnabas from Cyprus who had sold a field, brought the money and put it at the apostles' feet, might have opposed the plan.
When the first Jewish war broke out, the most of followers of the Jerusalem Church led by Simon, the younger brother of James the Less, fled the city just before siege by Roman army and withdrew to Pella. But John seems to have been truly ashamed of going into the domain of the Herodian royal family who had killed both John the Baptist and James the Greater.
And the mainstream of Jerusalem Church led by James the Less, too, would have had not to take remedial action and remain on the sidelines just as they had done so when Stephen had been martyred. Agabus seems to have been given the mission to tell Paul clearly that it was not a plot made by the members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen-Jews, but was the consensus of the religious community in Jerusalem including the Jerusalem Church..
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