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

After a lengthy discussion Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you that through me the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news,

But we did not for a moment yield them submission, in order that the truth of the good news might prevail for you.

Dearly beloved, while I was doing my best to begin writing you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write and urge you to carry on a vigorous defense of the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's people.

They determined

we have passed a unanimous resolution to select and send messengers to you with our beloved brothers Barnabas and Paul,

Then, fourteen years later, I again went up to Jerusalem, with Barnabas, and took Titus with me too.

Certain

Then the apostles and elders in cooperation with the whole church passed a resolution to select and send some men of their number with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. These were Judas, who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers.

So Peter invited them in and entertained them.

And the Spirit told me to go with them without any hesitation at all. These six brothers, too, went with me, and we all went into the man's house.

Should

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported what God had done through them as instruments.

Yes, indeed, though I am free from any human power, I have made myself a slave to everybody, to win as many as possible.

I went up under the guidance of a divine revelation. Now I laid before them the good news that I was in the habit of preaching among the heathen, but first I did so privately before the leaders, for fear that my course might be or might have been to no purpose.

So, although through union with Christ I have full freedom to order you to do your duty,

The apostles

Now the apostles and elders met to consider this matter.

On the next day we went with Paul to see James, and all the elders of the church came too.

Paul, by the will of God called as an apostle of Jesus Christ, and our brother Sosthenes,

For I consider myself not a single bit inferior to those surpassingly superior apostles of yours!