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King James Bible - Acts 15:5

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:5

Mas algunos de la secta de los fariseos, que habían creído, se levantaron, diciendo: Que es necesario circuncidarlos, y mandarles que guarden la ley de Mois�s.

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 15:5

Verse 5. But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees] This verse appears to be part of the declaration made by Paul and Barnabas to this council: for, having stated how God blessed their ministry among the Gentiles, they proceed to declare how all the good work was likely to be destroyed by certain Pharisees, who, having received the Christian faith, came down to Antioch, and began to teach the necessity of circumcision, &c., and thus filled the minds of the young converted Gentiles with doubtful disputations. See the margin.

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 5. But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees , etc.] Which was the strictest sect of religion among the Jews: which believed ; that Jesus was the Messiah, and professed their faith in him, and were members of the church, though they still retained many of their pharisaical tenets, and are therefore said to be of that sect: these rose up in opposition to Paul and Barnabas, as they were relating their success among the Gentiles, and giving an account of the difference that had happened at Antioch, and their own sense of that matter: saying, that it was needful to circumcise them : the Gentiles that believed: and to command them to keep the law of Moses ; both moral and ceremonial; the observance of which they reckoned was absolutely necessary to salvation. Some think these are not the words of Luke, relating what happened at Jerusalem, when Paul and Barnabas gave in their account of things to the apostles and elders; but that they are a continuation of their account, how that in the controversy raised at Antioch, certain Pharisees that came thither from Judea, rose up and asserted the necessity of the, Gentiles being circumcised, and of their keeping the law of Moses in order to their being saved; which is favoured by the Syriac version, especially by the Latin interpreter of it, who supplies the words thus, �but say they� (i.e. Paul and Barnabas) �there arose men�, etc.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 1-6 - Some from Judea taught the Gentile converts at Antioch, that they coul not be saved, unless they observed the whole ceremonial law as given by Moses; and thus they sought to destroy Christian liberty. There is strange proneness in us to think that all do wrong who do not just a we do. Their doctrine was very discouraging. Wise and good men desir to avoid contests and disputes as far as they can; yet when fals teachers oppose the main truths of the gospel, or bring in hurtfu doctrines, we must not decline to oppose them.

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Greek Textus Receptus

εξανεστησαν 1817 5627 V-2AAI-3P δε 1161 CONJ τινες 5100 X-NPM των 3588 T-GPM απο 575 PREP της 3588 T-GSF αιρεσεως 139 N-GSF των 3588 T-GPM φαρισαιων 5330 N-GPM πεπιστευκοτες 4100 5761 V-RAP-NPM λεγοντες 3004 5723 V-PAP-NPM οτι 3754 CONJ δει 1163 5904 V-PQI-3S περιτεμνειν 4059 5721 V-PAN αυτους 846 P-APM παραγγελλειν 3853 5721 V-PAN τε 5037 PRT τηρειν 5083 5721 V-PAN τον 3588 T-ASM νομον 3551 N-ASM μωυσεως 3475 N-GSM

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Vincent's NT Word Studies

5. Arose. In the assembly.

Sect. See on heresies, 2 Pet. ii. 1.

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Robertson's NT Word Studies

15:5 {But there rose up} (exanestesan de). Second aorist active indicative (intransitive). Note both ex and an. These men rose up out of the crowd at a critical moment. They were believers in Christ (pepisteukotes, having believed), but were still members of "the sect of the Pharisees" (tes hairesews twn farisaiwn). Evidently they still held to the Pharisaic narrowness shown in the attack on Peter (#11:2f.). Note the dogmatism of their "must" (dei) after the opposition of Paul and Barnabas to their "except" (ean me) at Antioch (#15:1). They are unconvinced and expected to carry the elders with them. Codex Bezae says that they had appealed to the elders (#15:2,5). At any rate they have made the issue in open meeting at the height of the jubilation. It is plain from verse #6 that this meeting was adjourned, for another gathering came together qen. It is here that the private conference of which Paul speaks in #Ga 2:1-10 took place. It was Paul's chance to see the leaders in Jerusalem (Peter, James, and John) and he won them over to his view of Gentile liberty from the Mosaic law so that the next public conference (#Ac 15:6-29) ratified heartily the views of Paul, Barnabas, Peter, James, and John. It was a diplomatic triumph of the first order and saved Christianity from the bondage of Jewish ceremonial sacramentalism. So far as we know this is the only time that Paul and John met face to face, the great spirits in Christian history after Jesus our Lord. It is a bit curious to see men saying today that Paul surrendered about Titus and had him circumcised for the sake of peace, the very opposite of what he says in Galatians, "to whom I yielded, no not for an hour." Titus as a Greek was a red flag to the Judaizers and to the compromisers, but Paul stood his ground.