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ACTS CHAPTER 15
Act_15:1-4 Great dissensions arise about circumcising the
Gentiles: Paul and Barnabas are sent to consult the
apostles and elders at Jerusalem.
Act_15:5,6 The matter is debated in a council there,
Act_15:7-11 Peter declareth his opinion.
Act_15:12 Paul and Barnabas report the miracles they had
wrought among the Gentiles.
Act_15:13-21 James pronounceth sentence in favour of the Gentiles,
requiring of them abstinence only in a few
particulars.
Act_15:22-35 Letters are sent with the determination by messengers
to the churches, which are received with joy.
Act_15:36-41 Paul and Barnabas propose to visit together the
churches they had planted, but disagree, and travel
different ways.
Certain men; these were such as did pretend to believe, but were false brethren; some think Cerinthus to have been of them.
The brethren; the Gentiles who were converted unto the faith of Christ, or Proselytes of the gate (as they were called) who were not circumcised, and now professing the true faith. These the pharisaical professors would have excluded from any hopes of salvation, although circumcision was not commanded but unto the posterity of Abraham, Gen_17:10-13, and Abraham himself was justified before he was circumcised, Rom_4:10.
After the manner of Moses; according unto the law of Moses: for God by him did renew and establish that ordinance unto that people, although it was long before his time both commanded and practised, Joh_7:22.