Acts 15:26
men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
27And we have sent with them Jude and Silas, that they may tell you the same things orally.
Cross References
Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the chiefs of the city, and the opulent women who with them feared God, and set up a persecution against Paul and against Barnabas, and expelled them from their borders.
1 Corinthians 15:30And why also do we stand every hour in peril?
Philippians 2:29Receive him then in the Lord, with all joy; and hold in honor those who are such.
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 →