Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
He withdrew
Fearing
General references
Bible References
He did
Acts 10:28
He said to them, "You know better than most that a Jew is strictly forbidden to associate with a Gentile or visit him; but God has taught me to call no one unholy or unclean.
Acts 11:3
"You went into the houses of men who are not Jews," they said, "and you ate with them."
Ephesians 2:15
by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form one new man,
Ephesians 3:6
I mean the truth that the Gentiles are joint heirs with us Jews, and that they form one body with us, and have the same interest as we have in the promise which has been made good in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
He withdrew
Luke 15:2
and this led the Pharisees and the Scribes indignantly to complain, saying, "He gives a welcome to notorious sinners, and joins them at their meals!"
1 Thessalonians 5:22
Hold yourselves aloof from every form of evil.
Fearing
Matthew 26:69
Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean."
General references
Luke 5:38
But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
Luke 15:2
and this led the Pharisees and the Scribes indignantly to complain, saying, "He gives a welcome to notorious sinners, and joins them at their meals!"
Galatians 2:18
Why, if I am now rebuilding that structure of sin which I had demolished, I am thereby constituting myself a transgressor;