Acts 15:6
New International Version
The apostles and elders met to consider this question.

New Living Translation
So the apostles and elders met together to resolve this issue.

English Standard Version
The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.

Berean Standard Bible
So the apostles and elders met to look into this matter.

Berean Literal Bible
And both the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

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

New King James Version
Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.

New American Standard Bible
The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.

NASB 1995
The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.

NASB 1977
And the apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.

Legacy Standard Bible
Both the apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.

Amplified Bible
The apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter.

Christian Standard Bible
The apostles and the elders gathered to consider this matter.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the apostles and the elders assembled to consider this matter.

American Standard Version
And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But the Apostles and the Elders assembled to look into this matter.

Contemporary English Version
The apostles and church leaders met to discuss this problem about Gentiles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter.

English Revised Version
And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The apostles and spiritual leaders met to consider this statement.

Good News Translation
The apostles and the elders met together to consider this question.

International Standard Version
So the apostles and the elders met to look into this claim.

Literal Standard Version
And there were gathered together the apostles and the elders, to see about this matter,

Majority Standard Bible
So the apostles and elders met to look into this matter.

New American Bible
The apostles and the presbyters met together to see about this matter.

NET Bible
Both the apostles and the elders met together to deliberate about this matter.

New Revised Standard Version
The apostles and the elders met together to consider this matter.

New Heart English Bible
The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the apostles and elders came together to consider of this matter.

Weymouth New Testament
Then the Apostles and Elders met to consider the matter;

World English Bible
The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

Young's Literal Translation
And there were gathered together the apostles and the elders, to see about this matter,

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Context
The Council at Jerusalem
5But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.” 6So the apostles and elders met to look into this matter. 7After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.…

Cross References
Acts 11:30
This they did, sending their gifts to the elders with Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 15:2
And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.

Acts 15:4
On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.

Acts 15:22
Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,

Acts 16:4
As they went from town to town, they delivered the decisions handed down by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Acts 15:25
It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 6:2
Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

Acts 21:18
And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.

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Acts 15
1. Great dissensions arise regarding circumcision.
5. The apostles consult about it,
22. and send their determination by letters to the churches.
36. Paul and Barnabas, thinking to visit the brothers together,
39. disagree, and travel different ways.














(6) And the apostles and elders came together.--The meeting rightly takes its place as the first in the long series of councils, or synods, which mark the course of the Church's history. It bore its witness that the government of the Christian society was not to rest in the autocracy of a single will, but in the deliberative decision of those who, directly or indirectly, having been appointed by the choice, or with the approval, of the people, represented the whole community. Presbyters had an equal voice with the Apostles, whose position was analogous to that of the later bishops. Those whom we should call the laity were present at the deliberations, and, though we have no absolute proof that they took part in them, gave their vote. (Comp. Note on Acts 15:23.) Strictly speaking, it was, in the later ecclesiastical language, a provincial and not an ?cumenical synod, called to decide what seemed a question of discipline rather than of doctrine; but the ground on which the question had been argued made it one of world-wide dogmatic importance. If circumcision was necessary, then faith in Christ was insufficient. St. Paul saw and felt this in all its fulness, and therefore would not "give way by subjection, no, not for an hour" (Galatians 2:5). We have no data for estimating the number of the presbyters who were present. Probably they included those of the neighbouring towns and villages of Judaea as well as of Jerusalem, and if so, we may fairly think of some number between fifty and a hundred.

Verse 6. - The elders for elders, A.V.; were gathered for came, A.V.; to for for to, A.V. The question was too important, and, perhaps, the persons who advanced the objections too considerable, to allow of a decision to be taken on the spot. A special meeting of the Church was called to consider the matter.

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Greek
[So]
τε (te)
Conjunction
Strong's 5037: And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

apostles
ἀπόστολοι (apostoloi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 652: From apostello; a delegate; specially, an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a commissioner of Christ.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

elders
πρεσβύτεροι (presbyteroi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4245: Comparative of presbus; older; as noun, a senior; specially, an Israelite Sanhedrist or Christian 'presbyter'.

met
Συνήχθησάν (Synēchthēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4863: From sun and ago; to lead together, i.e. Collect or convene; specially, to entertain.

to look into
ἰδεῖν (idein)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

this
τούτου (toutou)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

matter.
λόγου (logou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.


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