Acts 15:3
Therefore, being sent forth by the church, they were passing through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling in detail about the conversion of the Gentiles; and they were causing great joy to all the brothers.
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Luke 15:23And bring the fatted calf here and slaughter it, and let us eat and be merry;
Acts 8:14Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,
Acts 13:48Now when the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Acts 14:27Now arriving and gathering the church together, they related all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith for the Gentiles.
Acts 21:5But when it came about that we had completed the days there, having gone out we departed, all of them accompanying us, together with their wives and children, until we were outside the city. And having bowed our knees on the shore, we 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 →