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A New, Internal Threat
Commentators highlight that this was the first major internal conflict within the church. After facing external persecution, the church now faced a more subtle danger: doctrinal division from within. Scholars like Calvin note that such internal discord can be more discouraging and damaging to the gospel's witness than attacks from outside, as it confuses believers and creates opportunities for slander.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 15:1
18th Century
Theologian
CHAPTER 15
And certain men. These were men undoubtedly who had been Jews, but who were now converted to Christianity. The fact that…
AT Robertson
On Acts 15:1
And certain men came down from Judea (κα τινες κατελθοντες απο της Ιουδαιας). Evidently the party of the circumcision in the churc…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 15:1
19th Century
Bishop
And certain men which came down from Judea.—We enter into the history of the first great controversy in the records of th…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 15:1
The immediate occasion for the Jerusalem Council was the visit to Syrian Antioch of some Jewish Christians from Jerusalem and their teaching that o…
John Calvin
On Acts 15:1
16th Century
Theologian
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 …
John Gill
On Acts 15:1
17th Century
Pastor
And certain men which came down from Judea
To Antioch; they were not sent by the apostles, they came down of "themse…
Matthew Henry
On Acts 15:1–6
17th Century
Minister
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…