Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
He made no distinction between us and them (ouqen diekrinen metacu hmwn te kai autwn). He distinguished nothing (first aorist active ind.) between (both dia and metacu) both (te kai) us and them. In the matter of faith and conversion God treated us Jews as heathen and the heathen as Jews.
Cleansing their hearts by faith (th pistei kaqarisav tav kardiav autwn). Not by works nor by ceremonies. Peter here has a thoroughly Pauline and Johannine idea of salvation for all both Jew and Greek. Cf. Acts 10:15.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 15:9:
1 Corinthians 1:12
1 Corinthians 4:7
James 1:6
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