Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:8
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;God bare them witness — That he had accepted them, by giving them the Holy Ghost. read more
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John Wesley
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:9
And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.Purifying — This word is repeated from Acts 10:15; their hearts - The heart is the proper seat of purity; by faith - Without concerning themselves with the Mosaic law. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:10
Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?Now therefore — Seeing these things are so: why tempt ye God? - Why do ye provoke him to anger, by putting so heavy a yoke on their neck? read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:11
But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.The Lord Jesus — He does not here say our Lord; because in this solemn place he means the Lord of all, we - Jews, shall be saved even as they - Gentiles, namely, through the grace of the Lord Jesus, not by our observance of the ceremonial law. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:12
Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.Miracles and wonders — By which also what St. Peter had said was confirmed. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:14
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.Simon hath declared — James, the apostle of the Hebrews, calls Peter by his Hebrew name.To take out of them a people for his name — That is to believe in him, to be called by his name. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:15
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,To this agree — St. Peter had urged the plain fact, which St. James confirms by Scripture prophecy.The words of the prophets — One of whom is immediately cited. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:16
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:After this — After the Jewish dispensation expires.I will build again the fallen tabernacle of David — By raising from his seed the Christ, who shall build on the ruins of his fallen tabernacle a spiritual and eternal kingdom. Amos 9:11. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:17
That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.The Gentiles on whom my name is called — That is, who are called by my name; who are my people. read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 15:7
And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.After much debate — It does not appear that this was among the apostles themselves. But if it had, if they themselves had debated at first, yet might their final decision be from an unerring direction. For how really soever they were inspired, we need not suppose... read more