Acts 4:36

Joses; some read Joseph; the Hebrew names, when turned into Greek, meet with divers terminations or endings. Surnamed Barnabas; full of consolation; not only in that he gave so liberally towards the relief of the poor, parting with his possessions for them; but that he excelled in propounding inward and spiritual comfort unto poor and rich, being of a mild disposition, and fitted to handle gently such wounds as the terrors of the law had made. Though a Levite he might have land, either in right of his wife, or given to him and his ancestors; as we read was to Phinehas, Joshua 24:33; otherwise the Lord was the Levites portion in an especial manner. The Jews being dispersed all over the known world, some dwelt in Cyprus, as Joses's parents; Saul's parents dwelt at Tarsus; though at this time both Saul and Joses dwell in Jerusalem.