Why tempt ye God? (τ πειραζετε τον θεον; ). By implying that God had made a mistake this time, though right about Cornelius. It is…

Why tempt you God? Why provoke him to displeasure? Why, since he has shown his determination to accept them without such rites, do you pro…

Why tempt you God.—To tempt God was to make the experiment whether His will, manifested in the acceptance of the Gentiles…

Peter was no longer the chief figure of the Jerusalem church, for James had now assumed that role (cf. comment on 12:17). But Peter was dominant in…

Now, therefore, why tempt you? This is the other part of the sermon in which Peter shows how deadly that doctrine is which Paul’s enemies …

Now therefore why tempt you God
By hesitating about this matter, by disputing upon this point, and by seeking for further proo…

We see from the words purifying their hearts by faith, and the address of Saint Peter, that justification by faith and sanctification by t…