Acts 15

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Acts 15
Acts 15:22–24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550.
BookActs of the Apostles
CategoryChurch history
Christian Bible partNew Testament
Order in the Christian part5

Acts 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the

Christian Bible. It records Paul and Barnabas traveling to Jerusalem to attend the Council of Jerusalem and the beginning of Paul's second missionary journey.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.[2]

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 41 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

In Greek
In Latin

Old Testament references

New Testament references

Locations

Achaia
Athens
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Places mentioned in (blue) and related to (black) this chapter.

This chapter mentions the following places (in order of appearance):

Timeline

The journey of Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem and the Council of Jerusalem is generally considered to have taken place around 48 [7] – 50 AD.

Conflict over circumcision (15:1–5)

The

Mosaic law. The People's New Testament Commentary [8] called them 'the Judaizing Teachers';[9] Paul called them and others with the same teaching 'false brethren secretly brought in'.[10]

The dispute which arose resulted in a decision to send Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem, to seek a resolution to the issue. In Jerusalem the pro-circumcision case was argued by 'some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed'.[11]

Council of Jerusalem (15:6–29)

Main article: Council of Jerusalem

The account of Jerusalem Council is bracketed by the scenes in Antioch (verses 1–5 opening; verses 30–35 closing) as an indication that the narrator shifted from Jerusalem to Antioch as 'home ground', and might not have access to the developments in Jerusalem since Peter left that city in

Acts 12:17.[12]

Verse 13

And after they had become silent, James answered, saying, "Men and brethren, listen to me:"[13]

The council listened to

1 Corinthians 15:7).[14]

Verse 14

Simon has declared how God first visited the Gentiles to take from among them a people for His name.[15]
  • "Simon" here from Greek text Συμεὼν, Symeōn,
    2 Peter 1:1.[17]

Return to Antioch (15:30–35)

Armed with the apostolic decree, Paul and Barnabas triumphantly returned to Antioch, accompanied by the Jerusalem delegates, Judas (surnamed Barsabbas) and Silas (verses 22, 32), who provided encouragement and strengthening (cf. Acts 14:22), just like Barnabas, who was originally sent from Jerusalem to Antioch (Acts 11:22–24).[1]

Paul and Barnabas part company (15:36–41)

This section opens the account of Paul's second journey (

1 Thessalonians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 1:19).[18]

See also

  • Related
    1 Corinthians 15, Galatians 2

    • References

    1. ^ a b Alexander 2007, pp. 1047–1048.
    2. ^ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
    3. ^ Continuation List Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster. Retrieved March 29, 2010
    4. ^
      ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1
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    5. ^ Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 316.
    6. ^ a b c d "Biblical concordances of Acts 16 in the 1611 King James Version".
    7. ISBN 978-1-57910-527-3
    8. ^ M. Eugene Boring, Fred B. Craddock, The People's New Testament Commentary, Westminster John Knox Press, 2004
    9. ^ People's New Testament, http://biblehub.com/commentaries/pnt/acts/15.htm accessed 10 September 2015
    10. ^ Galatians 2:4
    11. ^ Acts 15:5 NKJV
    12. ^ Alexander 2007, p. 1047.
    13. ^ Acts 15:13 NKJV
    14. ^ The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997
    15. ^ Acts 15:14 MEV
    16. ^ Greek Text Analysis: Acts 15:14.Biblehub
    17. ^ Strong's Greek Concordance 4826. Sumeón. Biblehub
    18. ^ a b c Alexander 2007, p. 1048.

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