Acts 15:2

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Summary

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

They determined

Acts 15:25

Galatians 2:1

Certain

Acts 15:22

Acts 10:23

Acts 11:12

Should

The apostles

Bible References

Paul

and after the question had been much canvass'd, Peter rose up, and said, my brethren, you know that a considerable time since God chose me from among you to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, and bring them to the faith.

from me, who called you by the grace of Christ; this can be

I did not show them the lest compliance by way of submission, that the doctrine of the gospel might remain among you.

My beloved, as I was strongly bent upon writing to you of our common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you at present, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints.

They determined

we unanimously judg'd it proper to send particular deputies to you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me:

Certain

Then the apostles, the presbyters, and the whole church thought it proper to select some out of their own body to accompany Paul and Barnabas to Antioch: such as Judas surnam'd Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,

then he invited them in, and they lodged there. On the morrow, Peter departed with them, and some of his brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

and the spirit bid me make no difficulty of going with them. these six brethren accompany'd me, and we went together to the man's house.

Should

and being arrived at Jerusalem, they were receiv'd by the church, by the apostles, and presbyters, to whom they related all that God had done by them.

for tho' I am independent of all men, yet have I subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more.

and I went up according to revelation, and communicated to them that gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those who were of note, lest the pains, that I have already taken, or may hereafter take in the gospel, should be in vain.

Wherefore, tho' I have a right by virtue of my character, to prescribe what is fit:

The apostles

The apostles therefore, and the presbyters assembled to deliberate upon this affair.

the next day Paul went with us to James, where all the pastors assembled.

Paul appointed by the divine will to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes our brother,

for I think I am not at all inferior to the chiefest of the apostles.