Acts 15:10 - Forerunner Commentary

Acts 15:10

8 So God, ^awho knows the heart, acknowledged them by ^bgiving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us,

9 ^aand made no distinction between us and them, ^bpurifying their hearts by faith.

10 Now therefore, why do you test God ^aby putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

11 But ^awe believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus¹ Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.”

12 Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had ^aworked through them among the Gentiles.

13 And after they had¹ become silent, ^aJames answered, saying, “Men and brethren, listen to me:

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Acts 15:10-11

Here Peter calls the law of Moses a yoke of bondage, an unbearable yoke. No one could bear it. Over hundreds of years of trying to keep this law of Moses, they could not do it and it was horribly burdensome. Again, go back to Matthew 23 and all the things that Jesus told the Pharisees about pushing the law of Moses onto the people, and they would not lift their finger to lift one of the burdens that they were putting on them.

Excerpted from The Jerusalem Council's Conclusion

Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Acts 15:10:

Deuteronomy 27:16
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