Acts 15:3

Being, therefore, con ducted on their journey by the church, they passed through Phenicia and Samaria, making known the conversion of the Gentiles; and they gave great joy to all the brethren.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Therefore, after Paul and Barnabas had no little dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from among them, should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.

4When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and the apostles and elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.

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Cross References

Luke 15:23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

Acts 8:14Now when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John;

Acts 13:48When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were determined to obtain eternal life, believed.

Acts 14:27And having come and called together the church, they reported all that God had done with them, and that he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

Acts 21:5And when these days were completed, we went forth, and continued our journey, they all, with their wives and children, conducting us out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.

Matthew Henry on Acts 15:2-6

Controversy Raised at Antioch; Bigotry of the Jewish Converts. 1 And certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 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. 3 And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and… Read the whole commentary →

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