Event

Jerusalem Council

Name: Jerusalem Council
Location: Jerusalem

Date:: AD 46
Duration:: 1 day

Facing a dispute over whether Gentile converts to Christianity had to be circumcised and keep the Jewish law, the apostles and elders meet in Jerusalem and rule that Gentiles need not be circumcised, a decision that shaped Christianity's growth as a movement open to Jews and Gentiles alike (Acts 15).

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Part of 1

First Missionary Journey

Preceded by 1

Paul Writes Galatians

Followed by 1

Paul and Barnabas part ways

Participants 7

Apostles (Post-Ascension)Barnabas James Judas Paul Silas Simon

Locations 1

Jerusalem

Described in 34

Reference	Verse
Acts 15:1	And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Acts 15:2	When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts 15:3	And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
Acts 15:4	And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
Acts 15:5	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.
Acts 15:6	And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
Acts 15:7	And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Acts 15:8	And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
Acts 15:9	And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
Acts 15:10	Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts 15:11	But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Acts 15:12	Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
Acts 15:13	And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
Acts 15:14	Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
Acts 15:15	And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
Acts 15:16	After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Acts 15:17	That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Acts 15:18	Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Acts 15:19	Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Acts 15:20	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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