Acts 15

And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Cir

A.M. 4057. A.D. 53.

certain

21.20 Galatians 2.4,12,13

the brethren

Except

5 Romans 4.8-12 Galatians 5.1-4 Philippians 3.2,3 Colossians 2.8,11,12,16

after

Genesis 17.10-27 Leviticus 12.3 John 7.22

ye

24 1 Corinthians 7.18,19 Galatians 2.1,3 5.6 6.13-16

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Paul

7 Galatians 1.6-10 2.5 Jude 1.3

they determined

25 Exodus 18.23 Galatians 2.1,2

certain

22,27 10.23 11.12

should

4,22,23 1 Samuel 8.7 1 Corinthians 9.19-23 Galatians 2.2 Philemon 1.8,9

the apostles

6,23 21.18 1 Corinthians 1.1 2 Corinthians 11.5

And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.

brought

21.5 28.15 Romans 15.24 1 Corinthians 16.6,11 Titus 3.13 3 John 1.6-8

passed

8.14 11.19

declaring

12 14.27 21.19,20

they caused

11.18 13.48,52 Isaiah 60.4,5 66.12-14 Luke 15.5-10,23,24,32

And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.

received

18.27 21.17 Matthew 10.40 Romans 15.7 Colossians 4.10 2 John 1.10 3 John 1.8-10

all

3,12 14.27 21.19 Romans 15.18 1 Corinthians 15.10 2 Corinthians 5.19 6.1

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

rose up certain

or, rose up, said they, certain. the sect.

21.20 26.5,6 Philippians 3.5-8

That it

1,24 Galatians 5.1-3

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

25 6.2 21.18 Proverbs 15.22 Matthew 18.20 Hebrews 13.7,17

And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

much

2,39 Philippians 2.14

ye know

10.5,6,20,32-48 11.12-18 Matthew 16.18,19

God

1.24 9.15 13.2 1 Chronicles 28.4,5 John 3.27 15.16 Galatians 2.7-9

by my

1.16 3.18 4.25 Exodus 4.12 Jeremiah 1.9 Romans 10.17,18

And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

which

1.24 1 Samuel 16.7 1 Kings 8.39 1 Chronicles 28.9 29.17 Psalms 44.21 139.1,2 Jeremiah 11.20 17.10 20.12 John 2.24,25 21.17 Hebrews 4.13 Revelation 2.23

bare

14.3 John 5.37 Hebrews 2.4

giving

2.4 4.31 10.44,45 11.15-17

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

put

14.1,27 Romans 3.9,22,29,30 4.11,12 9.24 10.11-13 1 Corinthians 7.18 Galatians 3.28 Galatians 5.6 Ephesians 2.14-22 3.6 Colossians 3.11

purifying

10.15,28,43,44 1 Corinthians 1.2 Hebrews 9.13,14 1 Peter 1.22

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Why

Exodus 17.2 Isaiah 7.12 Matthew 4.7 Hebrews 3.9

put

Matthew 11.28-30 23.4 Galatians 5.1

which

Galatians 4.1-5,9 Hebrews 9.9

But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

that

Romans 3.24 5.20,21 6.23 1 Corinthians 16.23 2 Corinthians 8.9 13.14 Galatians 1.6 2.16 Ephesians 1.6,7 2.7-9 Titus 2.11 3.4-7 Revelation 5.9

Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

declaring

4 14.27 21.19

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

after

1 Corinthians 14.30-33 James 1.19

James

12.17 21.18 Mark 15.40 Galatians 1.19 2.9,12 James 1.1

Men

2.14,22,29 7.2 22.1

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

Simeon

2 Peter 1.1 *Gr:

declared

7-9 Luke 1.68,78 2.31,32

to take

Isaiah 43.21 55.11-13 Romans 1.5 11.36 1 Peter 2.9,10

And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

13.47 Romans 15.8-12

After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

this

Amos 9.11,12

build again the tabernacle

2 Samuel 7.11-16 1 Kings 12.16 Psalms 89.35-49 Isaiah 9.6,7 Jeremiah 33.24-26 Ezekiel 17.22-24 Zechariah 13.8 Matthew 1.20-25 Luke 1.31-33,69,70

That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

the residue

Genesis 22.18 49.10 Psalms 22.26,27 67.1-3 72.17-19 Isaiah 2.2,3 11.10 Isaiah 19.23-25 24.15,16 49.6,7 66.18-21 Jeremiah 16.19 Hosea 2.23 Joel 2.32 Micah 4.1,2 5.7 Zechariah 2.11 8.20-23 Malachi 1.11

the Gentiles

Genesis 48.16 Numbers 6.27 Isaiah 43.7 65.1

who

Numbers 24.23 Isaiah 45.7,8 Daniel 4.35

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

17.26 Numbers 23.19 Isaiah 41.22,23 44.7 46.9,10 Matthew 13.35 25.34 Ephesians 1.4,11 3.9 2 Thessalonians 2.13 1 Peter 1.20 Revelation 13.8 17.8

Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

that

10,24,28 Galatians 1.7-10 2.4 5.11,12

turned

26.20 Isaiah 55.7 Hosea 14.2 1 Thessalonians 1.9

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

from pollutions

29 Genesis 35.2 Exodus 20.3-5,23 34.15,16 Numbers 25.2 Psalms 106.37-39 Ezekiel 20.30,31 1 Corinthians 8.1,4-13 10.20-22,28 Revelation 2.14,20 9.20 10.2,8

fornication

1 Corinthians 5.11 6.9,13,18 7.2 2 Corinthians 12.21 Galatians 5.19 Ephesians 5.3 Colossians 3.5 1 Thessalonians 4.3 Hebrews 12.16 13.4 1 Peter 4.3

things

21.25 Genesis 9.4 Leviticus 3.17 7.23-27 17.10-14 Deuteronomy 12.16,23-25 14.21 Deuteronomy 15.23 1 Samuel 14.32 Ezekiel 4.14 33.25 1 Timothy 4.4,5

For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

sabbath

13.15,27 Nehemiah 8.1-12 Luke 4.16

Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

pleased

23,25 6.4,5 2 Samuel 3.36 2 Chronicles 30.4,12

to send

27 8.14 11.22

Barsabas

1.23

Silas

27,32,40 16.19,25,29 17.4,10,14 18.5 1 Thessalonians 1.1 2 Thessalonians 1.1 1 Peter 5.12

Silvanus

Verse 23

And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:

The apostles

4,22

greeting

23.26 Romans 16.3-16 James 1.1 2 John 1.3,13 3 John 1.14

brethren

11.18 14.27 21.25

Syria

41 18.18 21.3 Galatians 1.21

Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

that certain

Jeremiah 23.16 Galatians 2.4 5.4,12 2 Timothy 2.14 Titus 1.10,11 1 John 2.19

Ye must

1,9,10 Galatians 2.3,4 6.12,13

It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

seemed

28 Matthew 11.26 Luke 1.3

being

6 1.14 2.1,46 1 Corinthians 1.10

to send

22,27

our

Romans 16.12 Ephesians 6.21 Colossians 4.7,9 Philemon 1.16 2 Peter 3.15

Barnabas

2,35 Galatians 2.9

Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

hazarded

13.50 14.19 Judges 5.18 1 Corinthians 15.30 2 Corinthians 11.23-27 Philippians 2.29,30

We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.

Judas

who

2 John 1.12 3 John 1.13

mouth

Gr. word.

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

it

John 16.13 1 Corinthians 7.25,40 14.37 1 Thessalonians 4.8 1 Peter 1.12

greater

Matthew 11.30 23.4 Revelation 2.24

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

ye abstain

20 21.25 Leviticus 17.14 Romans 14.14,15,20,21 1 Corinthians 10.18-20 Revelation 2.14,20

if ye

2 Corinthians 11.9 1 Timothy 5.22 James 1.27 1 John 5.21 Jude 1.20,21,24

Fare

18.21 23.30 Luke 9.61 2 Corinthians 13.11

So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:

and

6.2 21.22

delivered

16.4 23.33

Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

they rejoiced

1,10 16.5 Galatians 2.4,5 5.1 Philippians 3.3

consolation

or, exhortation.

And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.

being

2.17,18 11.23,27 13.1 Matthew 23.34 Luke 11.49 Romans 12.6 1 Corinthians 12.28,29 1 Corinthians 14.3,29,32 Ephesians 3.5 4.11 1 Thessalonians 5.20

exhorted

2.40 11.23 14.22 18.23 20.2 Romans 12.8 1 Thessalonians 2.11 4.1 5.14 2 Thessalonians 3.12 1 Timothy 2.1 2 Timothy 4.2 Titus 2.6-15 1 Peter 5.1,12

confirmed

41 Isaiah 35.3,4 Daniel 11.1 1 Corinthians 1.8 Ephesians 4.12,13 1 Thessalonians 3.2 1 Peter 5.10

And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.

they were

16.36 Genesis 26.29 Exodus 4.18 1 Corinthians 16.11 Hebrews 11.31 2 John 1.10

Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.

it pleased

11.25,26 18.27 1 Corinthians 16.12

Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

continued

13.1 14.28

teaching

28.31 Matthew 28.19,20 Colossians 1.28 1 Timothy 2.7 2 Timothy 4.2

And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.

Cir

A.M. 4058. A.D. 54. Let.

7.23 Exodus 4.18 Jeremiah 23.2 Matthew 25.36,43

in every

13.4,13,14,51 14.1,6,21,24,25

and see

Romans 1.11 2 Corinthians 11.28 Philippians 1.27 1 Thessalonians 2.17,18 3.6,10,11 2 Timothy 1.4

And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

John

12.12,25 13.5,13 Colossians 4.10 2 Timothy 4.11 Philemon 1.24

But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

who

13.13 Psalms 78.9 Proverbs 25.19 Luke 9.61 14.27-34 James 1.8

And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;

the contention

2 6.1 Psalms 106.33 119.96 Ecclesiastes 7.20 Romans 7.18-21 James 3.2

and sailed

4.36 11.20 13.4-12 27.4

And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.

chose

22,32 16.1-3

being

13.3 14.26 20.32 1 Corinthians 15.10 2 Corinthians 13.14 2 Timothy 4.22 Titus 3.15 2 John 1.10,11

And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

through

23 18.18 21.3 Galatians 1.21

confirming

32 16.4,5