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Text -- Acts 15:1-4 (NET)

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The Jerusalem Council
15:1 Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot cannot be saved.” 15:2 When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement. 15:3 So they were sent on their way by the church, and as they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, they were relating at length the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers. 15:4 When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Barnabas a man who was Paul's companion on several of his journeys
 · Gentile a non-Jewish person
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Judea a region that roughly corresponded to the earlier kingdom of Judah
 · Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law
 · Paul a man from Tarsus who persecuted the church but became a missionary and writer of 13 Epistles
 · Phoenicia the region ofeast Mediterranean coastal land from Arvad (modern Lebanon) south to Gaza,the coast land from Mt. Carmel north to the Orontes River
 · Samaria residents of the district of Samaria


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Paul | Council | Titus | Barnabas | HOLY SPIRIT, 2 | GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE | SILAS | BISHOP | Antioch | PRESBYTER; PRESBYTERY | JESUS CHRIST, 5 | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 1 | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 | PETER, SIMON | LAW IN THE NEW TESTAMENT | KEYS, POWER OF THE | APOSTOLICAL COUNCIL | Bigotry | Inclusiveness | Elder | more
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NET Notes: Act 15:1 Unless you are circumcised. These teachers from Judea were teaching that Gentiles could not be saved unless they kept the law of Moses in regard to ci...

NET Notes: Act 15:2 Or “point of controversy.” It is unclear whether this event parallels Gal 2:1-10 or that Gal 2 fits with Acts 11:30. More than likely Gal ...

NET Notes: Act 15:3 For ἐποίουν (epoioun) in this verse BDAG 839 s.v. ποιέω 2.c has “they brought joy t...

NET Notes: Act 15:4 “They reported all the things God had done with them” – an identical phrase occurs in Acts 14:27. God is always the agent.

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