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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.
7 And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: a“Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.  
8 So God, awho knows the heart, acknowledged them by bgiving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us,  
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Acts 15:3

They therefore (oi men oun). Luke's favourite method of resumptive narrative as we have seen (Acts 11:19, etc.), demonstrative oi with men (indeed) and oun (therefore).

Being brought on their way by the church (propemfqentev upo thv ekklhsiav). First aorist passive participle of propempw, old verb, to send forward under escort as a mark of honour as in Acts 20:38; Acts 21:5; III John 1:6. They were given a grand send-off by the church in Antioch.

Passed through (dihrxonto). Imperfect middle describing the triumphal procession through both (te kai) Phoenicia and Samaria.

The conversion (thn epistrofhn). The turning.

They caused great joy (epoioun xaran megalhn). Imperfect active. They were raising a constant paean of praise as they proceeded toward Jerusalem. Probably the Judaizers had gone on or kept still.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 15:3:

Acts 11:21
Acts 15:30
Acts 15:30
Acts 15:32
Acts 20:38
Acts 21:4
3 John 1:6

 

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