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 there had been a long discussion, Peter rose and said: "Brothers, you know how a good while ago God made choice among you, that from my lips the Gentiles were to hear the message of the gospel and believe.

I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

Beloved, although I was making all haste to write to you in regard to our common salvation, I am compelled to write you an appeal to defend the faith once for all committed to the saints.

They determined

"we have unanimously decided to select certain men, and to send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul;

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

Certain

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, to select some of their number, and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. The men chosen were Judas called Bar-Sabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.

So he invited them in and gave them lodging. The next day he rose, and went off with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied them;

"And the Spirit bade me accompany them without misgiving. There also accompanied me these six brothers, and we went into the man's house.

Should

Upon their arrival in Jerusalem they were received by the church and the apostles and elders, and they told them all things that God had done with them.

Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

And so, although I might be bold in Christ to dictate to you what is fitting,

The apostles

The apostles and elders met to consider the matter;

On the following day we went with Paul to call on James, and all the elders were present.

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother.

For I reckon that I am in no respect behind your superapostolic apostles.