Acts 15:10-31 ASV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:14

‘Symeon has rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.’ This use of Peter’s Hebrew name ‘Symeon’ was both tactful and fully understandable. Tactful because it linked Peter firmly with his Jewish background. It would make clear that in the end Peter was essentially Jewish. And understandable because James probably always thought of Peter as ‘Symeon’. He had in one way or another had contact with him from the very earliest days under that name. When... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:15

‘And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,’ Then he supports Peter’s case from the prophets, citing them as infallible Scripture (‘it is written’). The quotation, taken from Amos 9:11-12, is interesting in that it neither follows MT nor LXX, although being closer to LXX. But in fact discoveries at Qumran, where the Hebrew lying behind this quotation is paralleled (4 Q Flor Acts 1:11), suggest that James was using a differing Hebrew text than MT, or possibly a book of... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:16-18

“After these things I will return, And I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen, and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up, that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the Lord, who makes these things known from of old.” The verse as quoted here is a declaration of God’s restoration of things at the last day after the judgments of God have been poured out. The prophet sees God as here promising the... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:19

“Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not those who from among the Gentiles turn to God.” Having satisfactorily settled from Scripture that God had promised in the last days to call many Gentiles to Himself, and that therefore the calling of the Gentiles as Gentiles was Scriptural, James now gives his own judgment, and that is that in general they do not trouble Gentiles who turn to God with the details and intricacies of Jewish Law. God has called them as Gentiles, not as Jews. They are... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:20-21

“But that we write to them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood. For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.” Four major principles were, however, to be required of Gentile Christians. The first two were basic. They involved the avoidance of open contact with and participation in idolatry, including the avoidance of meat offered to idols and thus... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:22-23

‘Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren, and they wrote thus by them,’ Having come to their conclusions the church meeting closed. They had heeded the request of their sister church and would now send them details of their conclusions. It should be noted that this was not an official council, although it... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:22-35

The View of the Apostles and The Jerusalem Church Is Relayed To Syrian Antioch (15:22-35). read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:23

‘The apostles and the elders, brethren, to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting.’ The letter is addressed a little more widely than just to Antioch itself. ‘Syria and Cilicia’ was the province in which Antioch was found. The church at Antioch had by now established groups throughout their area, and it was recognised that the surrounding church groups would also have been affected by the visitors and they wanted the letter to be all-inclusive. Cilicia... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:24-26

‘Forasmuch as we have heard that certain who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment, it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ They first of all made clear that those men who had come among them in Antioch and had troubled them had not been sent with any authority from them. They... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:27

‘We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also will tell you the same things by word of mouth.’ In order to ensure that there could be no doubt about the agreed situation they were sending Judas and Silas, so that they would not only have the letter, but would hear by word of mouth all that had been said and agreed from the mouths of elders of the Jerusalem church. There could be no tampering with a verbal witness, especially such distinguished ones, and it would bring home the... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:14

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:16-18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:20-21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:22-23

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:22-35

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:23

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:24-26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 15:27

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