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Acts 15:12 KJV
Acts · chapter 15 · verse 12
Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.Acts 15:12 · King James Version
Acts 15:12 in context
10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- multitudeplēthosa multitude, a great number, of men or things, the whole number, the whole multitude, the…G4128 →
- declaringexēgeomaito lead out, be leader, go before, metaph., to draw out in narrative, unfold a teaching…G1834 →
- audienceakouōto be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf, to hear, to attend to, consider what…G191 →
- BarnabasbarnabasBarnabas = " son of rest" , the surname of Joses or Joseph, a Levite, a native of…G921 →
- miraclessēmeiona sign, mark, token, that by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others and…G4592 →
- silencesigaōto keep silence, hold one's peace, to be kept in silence, be concealedG4601 →
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We have here a council called, not by writ, but by consent, on this occasion (Act 15:6): The apostles and presbyters came together, to consider this matter. They did not give their judgment separately, but came together to do it, that they might hear one another's sense in this matter;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-21