And certain men came down from Judea (κα τινες κατελθοντες απο της Ιουδαιας). Evidently the party of the circumcision in the churc…

CHAPTER 15

And certain men. These were men undoubtedly who had been Jews, but who were now converted to Christianity. The fact that…

And certain men which came down from Judea.—We enter into the history of the first great controversy in the records of th…

The immediate occasion for the Jerusalem Council was the visit to Syrian Antioch of some Jewish Christians from Jerusalem and their teaching that o…

When Paul and Barnabas had endured many conflicts against the professed enemies of the gospel, Luke now begins to declare that they were tested by …

And certain men which came down from Judea
To Antioch; they were not sent by the apostles, they came down of "themse…

Some from Judea taught the Gentile converts at Antioch that they could not be saved unless they observed the whole ceremonial law as given by Moses…