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 much debate, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Brethren, ye know that a good while ago, God, who was among us, chose that the Gentiles should hear by my mouth the word of the gospel, and believe.

I wonder that ye are so soon removed from him who called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel: which is not another;

to whom we yielded no submission, not even for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

Beloved, having an earnest desire to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity of writing to exhort you that ye would strive earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.

They determined

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

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

Certain

Then it seemed good to the apostles, and elders, and the whole church, to send men chose from among themselves to Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas sirnamed Barsabas, and Silas; leading men among the brethren:

Then he invited them in, and entertained them that night. And on the morrow Peter set out with them; and some of the brethren from Joppa went with him.

And the Spirit ordered me to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brethren also came with me, and we entred into the man's house;

Should

And when they came to Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and elders, and they told them all that God had done by them.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more.

But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.

Wherefore though I have sufficient authority in Christ to enjoin thee what is meet,

The apostles

So the apostles and elders were assembled together to consider about this matter.

And the next day Paul went in with us to James: and all the elders were present.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth,

For I think I was not inferior to the very chiefest apostles: and if I am unskilled in speech,