Acts 15:20 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

KJV

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON ROMANS 2.13 (253)

"Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and tell them: If anyone who is from among the sons of Israel or from among foreigners, who happens to be among you, eats any blood, I shall place my spirit over the spirit which shall have eaten the blood, and I shall abolish it from among the people, since the spirit of every flesh is its blood.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

It was particularly frequent in the worship of their idols, on which account they are here named together. And from things strangled - That is, from whatever had been killed, without pouring out the blood. When God first permitted man to eat flesh, he commanded Noah, and in him all his posterity, whenever they killed any creature for food, to abstain from the blood thereof.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But that we write unto them - Four things are prohibited in this decree: 1. Pollutions of idols; 2. fornication; 3. things strangled; 4. blood. By the first, Pollutions of Idols, or, as it is in Act 15:25, meats offered to idols, not only all idolatry was forbidden, but eating things offered in sacrifice to idols, knowing that they were thus offered, and joining with idolaters in their sacred feasts, which were always an incentive either to idolatry itself, or to the impure acts generally attendant on such festivals.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ἐπιστεῖλαι	episteilai	to write	G1989 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	to them	G846 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
ἀπέχεσθαι	apechesthai	to abstain from	G568 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
ἀλισγημάτων	alisgēmatōn	pollutions	G234 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
εἰδώλων	eidōlōn	idols	G1497 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
πορνείας	porneias	sexual immorality	G4202 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοῦ	tou	that	G3588 →
πνικτοῦ	pniktou	which is strangled	G4156 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
αἵματος.	aimatos	from blood.	G129 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 12:23
  Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 15:23
  But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
leads to
- Revelation 2:14
  But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 15:29
  You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 16:31
  And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then…
Through
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
leads to
- Revelation 2:20
  But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 31:16
  “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
- 2 Peter 2:15
  They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.