Acts 13:15

And after the reading of the law and the prophets For the better understanding of what was here done, and also at the time when our Lord "stood up for to read" in the synagogue at Nazareth (Luke 4:16), it seems worth while to give a somewhat detailed account of the manner in which the Law and the Prophets are read by the Jews [3].

[3] See Excursus at the end of the Chapter.

the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them They having the control of the arrangements for calling up readers and preachers.

Ye men and brethren Read "Brethren," see Acts 1:16.

if ye have any word of exhortation for the people Barnabas was called (Acts 4:36) "Son of exhortation," where there is the same word in the original as here. The purport of the "word of exhortation" is well seen in Hebrews 13:22, where the writer calls his whole Epistle by that name.