I N D E X
Men of Jud`a.
B
15:3-5.
Phenice.  Samaria.  Jerusalem.
The Pharisees' demand.
C
15:6-12.
Apostles and Elders.
Peter.
Why put a yoke?
C
15:13-21.
Men and brethren.  James.
Trouble not the Gentiles.
B
15:22-29.
Antioch.
Syria.
Cilicia.
No such commandment.
A
15:30-35.
Antioch.
The answer.
Paul.  Barnabas.
Judas and Silas.
We give the above skeleton outline and then fill in each section as it comes
before us.  Those who are keen students of the Word will be more than
compensated for their pains if they will take the trouble to reproduce the
structure as a whole after the details have been set out.
The first member of the structure in this epoch-making fight of faith is
comprised in the first two verses:
`And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said,
Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation
with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of
them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this
question' (Acts 15:1,2).
Acts 15:1,2
A
15:1,2.
Antioch.
The question.
a
Certain men came down
from Judea.
Paul, Barnabas and
b
Their teaching.
the men of Judea.
b
The dissension.
a
Paul and Barnabas
go up to Jerusalem.
The glorious doctrine of justification by faith, apart from legal works of
any kind, had been the central feature of Paul's gospel on this wonderful
journey through the cities of Galatia.
`Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man
is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by Him all that believe are
Justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of
Moses' (Acts 13:38,39).
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