Acts 15:3
They therefore, having been sent forward by the church, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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Luke 15:23and bring the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry.
Acts 8:14And the apostles in Jerusalem, hearing that Samaria has received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;
Acts 13:48And the Gentiles hearing it rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were appointed unto eternal life believed.
Acts 14:27And having come, and gathered the church together, they reported how great things God wrought with them, and that he opened to the Gentiles a door of faith.
Acts 21:5And when we had completed the days, we departed and went our way; they all accompanying us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city; and we kneeled down on the beach, 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 →