No easy-going studies, these, with disruptions and delays, people coming and going. At first thought, it's easy to think that a family like this, with so many problems, conflicts, and sins, needs salvation. But that thought slides easily into another, that they need the gospel more than others. More than I do. We know better, really.
Nobody is better off than anybody else.
No matter how respectable you are, how nice your neighborhood, how Ivy League your school, how old your family tree, how impressive your job credentials. Not a chance. Sure, Dona Cleuza and her family really need the gospel. It doesn't sound like encouragement to continue in the faith. But perhaps Paul and Barnabas knew that forewarned is forearmed.