Acts 15:3 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Acts 15:3

Conflict over Circumcision

1 And ^acertain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, ^b“Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

2 Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that ^aPaul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.

3 So, ^abeing sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, ^bdescribing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren.

4 And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders; and they reported all things that God had done with them.

5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

The Jerusalem Council

6 Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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being brought on their way by the church—a kind of official escort.

they passed through Phenice—(See on Acts 11:19).

and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy to the brethren—As the converts in those parts were Jewish (Acts 11:19), their spirit contrasts favorably with that of others of their nation.

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