Acts 15:25

So we met together and picked some messengers, and we are sending them with our good friends Barnabas and Paul.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

In Context

24Listen, we heard that some men from here went to you and told you things that worried you and upset you. But those things are not true. We didn’t send those men.

26You know, Barnabas and Paul work for our leader Jesus Christ, and people tried to kill them for doing that.

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Cross References

Matthew 11:26Yes, Father, that is how you wanted to do it.”

Acts 1:14All those men met every day to pray together. Jesus’s brothers and some women met with them too. One of those women was Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Acts 2:46They all met together every day in the yard of God’s ceremony house. And they met together in each other’s houses too, to eat food and remember that Jesus died for them. They were all very happy and good to each other.

Acts 15:6Then Jesus’s special workers, and all the church leaders, met together to talk about that problem.

Acts 15:27We are sending Judas and Silas with them, and they will tell you the same things that we are writing in this letter.

Matthew Henry on Acts 15:23-36

Decision of the Council at Jerusalem; The Publication of the Decree. 22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: 23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: 24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which… Read the whole commentary →

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