Acts Chapter 15 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 15:6

And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter.
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BBE Acts 15:6

And the Apostles and the rulers of the church came together and gave thought to the question.
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DARBY Acts 15:6

And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
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KJV Acts 15:6

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
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WBT Acts 15:6


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WEB Acts 15:6

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
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YLT Acts 15:6

And there were gathered together the apostles and the elders, to see about this matter,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - The elders for elders, A.V.; were gathered for came, A.V.; to for for to, A.V. The question was too important, and, perhaps, the persons who advanced the objections too considerable, to allow of a decision to be taken on the spot. A special meeting of the Church was called to consider the matter.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) And the apostles and elders came together.--The meeting rightly takes its place as the first in the long series of councils, or synods, which mark the course of the Church's history. It bore its witness that the government of the Christian society was not to rest in the autocracy of a single will, but in the deliberative decision of those who, directly or indirectly, having been appointed by the choice, or with the approval, of the people, represented the whole community. Presbyters had an equal voice with the Apostles, whose position was analogous to that of the later bishops. Those whom we should call the laity were present at the deliberations, and, though we have no absolute proof that they took part in them, gave their vote. (Comp. Note on Acts 15:23.) Strictly speaking, it was, in the later ecclesiastical language, a provincial and not an ?cumenical synod, called to decide what seemed a question of discipline rather than of doctrine; but the ground on which the question had been argued made it one of world-wide dogmatic importance. If circumcision was necessary, then faith in Christ was insufficient. St. Paul saw and felt this in all its fulness, and therefore would not "give way by subjection, no, not for an hour" (Galatians 2:5). We have no data for estimating the number of the presbyters who were present. Probably they included those of the neighbouring towns and villages of Judaea as well as of Jerusalem, and if so, we may fairly think of some number between fifty and a hundred.