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When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were heartily welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they told them all that God had accomplished through them.

But some who believed [who [a]acknowledged Jesus as their Savior and devoted themselves to Him] belonged to the sect of the Pharisees, and they rose up and said, It is necessary to circumcise [the Gentile converts] and to charge them to obey the Law of Moses.

The apostles and the elders were assembled together to look into and consider this matter.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 15:5 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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