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 a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

But we refused to yield for a single instant to their claims; we were determined that the truth of the gospel should hold good for you.

Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints;

They determined

we have decided unanimously to select some of our number and send them to you along with our beloved Paul and Barnabas

Then, fourteen years later, I went up to Jerusalem again, accompanied by Barnabas; I took Titus with me also.

Certain

Then the apostles and the presbyters, together with the whole church, decided to select some of their number and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. The men selected were Judas (called Bar-Sabbas) and Silas, prominent members of the brotherhood.

So he invited them in and entertained them. Next day he was up and off with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa;

The Spirit told me to have no hesitation in accompanying them; these six brothers went with me as well, and we entered the man's house.

Should

On arriving at Jerusalem they were received by the church, the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported how God had been with them and what he had done.

Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could.

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

Hence, although in Christ I would feel quite free to order you to do your duty,

The apostles

The apostles and the presbyters met to investigate this question,

Next day we accompanied Paul to James; all the presbyters were present,

PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, with brother Sosthenes,

I hold I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles'!