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Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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Don't Challenge God's Will
Commentators explain that "tempting God" in this context means challenging His clearly revealed will. God had already shown His acceptance of the Gentiles by giving them the Holy Spirit without requiring circumcision. For the council to then add that requirement would be to question God's judgment and provoke His displeasure by refusing to follow His clear guidance.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 ye God? (τ πειραζετε τον θεον; ). By implying that God had made a mistake this time, though right about Cornelius. It is…
19th Century
Anglican
Why tempt you God.—To tempt God was to make the experiment whether His will, manifested in the acceptance of the Gentiles…
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now therefore why tempt you God By hesitating about this matter, by disputing upon this point, and by seeking for further proo…
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