Acts 15:5 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 15:5

But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is needful to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.

KJV

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

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Commentary

3 voices

Tertullian

Against Marcion Book V (220)

He then cursorily touches on his own conversion from a persecutor to an apostle-confirming thereby the Acts of the Apostles, in which book may be found the very subject of this epistle, how that certain persons interposed, and said that men ought to be circumcised, and that the law of Moses was to be observed; and how the apostles, when consulted, determined, by the authority of the Holy Ghost, that "a yoke should not be put upon men's necks which their fathers even had not been able to bear."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

But certain Pharisees - For even believers are apt to retain their former turn of mind, and prejudices derived therefrom. The law of Moses - The whole law, both moral and ritual.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

But there rose up ... - It has been doubted whether these are the words of Paul and Barnabas, relating what occurred at Antioch, or whether they are the words of Luke recording what took place at Jerusalem. The correct exposition is probably what refers it to the latter. For: (1) This seems to be the most obvious interpretation. (2) The use of the words “rose up” implies that.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἐξανέστησαν	Exanestēsan	Rose up	G1817 →
δέ	de	now	G1161 →
τινες	tines	certain	G5100 →
τῶν	tōn	of those	G3588 →
ἀπὸ	apo	of	G575 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
αἱρέσεως	haireseōs	sect	G139 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
Φαρισαίων	Pharisaiōn	Pharisees	G5330 →
πεπιστευκότες,	pepisteukotes	having believed	G4100 →
λέγοντες	legontes	saying	G3004 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
δεῖ	dei	It is necessary	G1163 →
περιτέμνειν	peritemnein	to circumcise	G4059 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	them	G846 →
παραγγέλλειν	parangellein	to command [them]	G3853 →
τε	te	then	G5037 →
τηρεῖν	tērein	to keep	G5083 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
νόμον	nomon	law	G3551 →
Μωϋσέως.¶	Mōuseōs	of Moses.	G3475 →

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
Acts 15:1
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
leads to
- Galatians 5:6
  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
- Colossians 2:8
  See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
- Galatians 2:11–14
  When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned.
- 1 Corinthians 7:18–19
  Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.
- Leviticus 12:3
  And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
Through
Acts 15:24
It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.
leads to
- Acts 15:1
  Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Galatians 5:12
  As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
- Galatians 5:10
  I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.