St. Paul and St. Barnabas were the principal agents, and of these St.
Paul was the chief speaker, but it was not he who changed the hearts or
filled the disciples with joy and with the Holy Ghost. So he did not
tell what _he_ had done, but what God had done. The drawing of the
sinner, whether Jew or Gentile, into the new or living way was a Divine
act. To open the heart required a Divine power as much as to open the
door. It is important for us clearly to bear in mind this principle,
that the power to enter in is of itself the gift of God—that we must
trust Him not only to save us when we have entered in, but to enable us
to enter in; not only to show mercy on us when we have come near to Him,
but to draw us near by His own Spirit.