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Acts 15:12
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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:  
14 aSimon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.  
15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:
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Acts 15:12

Then all the multitude - Evidently the multitude of private Christians who were assembled on this occasion. That it does not refer to a synod of ministers and elders merely is apparent:

(1) Because the church, the brethren, are represented as having been present, and as concurring in the final opinion Acts 15:22-23; and,

(2) Because the word "multitude" ̀ ͂ to plēthos would not have been used in describing the collection of apostles and elders merely. Compare Luke 1:10-11, Luke 1:13; Luke 5:6; Luke 6:17; Luke 19:37; John 5:3; John 21:6; Acts 4:32; Acts 6:2; Matthew 3:7.

Gave audience - Heard, listened attentively to.

Barnabas and Paul - They were deeply interested in it, and they were qualified to give a fair statement of the facts as they had occurred.

Declaring what miracles and wonders ... - The argument here evidently is, that God had approved their work by miracles; that he gave evidence that what they did had his approbation; and that as all this was done without imposing on them the rites of the Jews, so it would follow that those were not now to be commanded.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Acts 15:12:

Matthew 18:19
Acts 4:36
Acts 15:6
Galatians 2:2

 

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