Acts 15:6

And the Moshiachʼs Shlichim and the Zekenim were gathered together as a council to consider this matter.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

In Context

5But some of the ma'aminim hameshichiyim from the kat of the Perushim rose up, saying, It is necessary to give the Goyim the bris milah and to command them to be shomer mitzvot, keeping the Torah of Moshe Rabbenu.

7And after much deliberation had taken place, Moshiachʼs Shliach Shim'on Kefa got up. Kefa said to them, Anashim, Achim b'Moshiach, you have da'as that in the early days Hashem chose that among you I would be the one and through my mouth the Goyim would hear the dvar Hashem of the Besuras HaGeulah and would come to emunah. + 15:7 in the Orthodox Jewish faith

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Cross References

Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered as a Chavurah and are a Kehillah in my name, + 18:20 Moshiach there I am in the midst of them.

Acts 15:4And having come to Yerushalayim, they were there received by Moshiachʼs Kehillah and the Moshiachʼs Shlichim and the Zekenim, and they reported what things Hashem had done with them.

Acts 21:18And on the following day Rav Sha'ul was going in with us to Ya'akov, + 21:18 See Ya'akov's letter which precedes the two Igrot Kodesh of Kefa. and all the Ziknei HaKehillah came.

Hebrews 13:17Obey your manhigim and submit to them; for they are being shomer over your neshamot, as those who have achraius (answerability, accountability) [to Hashem]. Let them do so with simcha and not with agmat nefesh, for that would not be profitable for you.

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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