Teks -- Acts 15:5 (NET)

15:5 But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”

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Robertson: Act 15:5 - But there rose up

But there rose up ( exanestēsan de ).

Second aorist active indicative (intransitive). Note both exō and an . These men rose up out of the crowd at a critical moment. They were believers in Christ (pepisteukotes , having believed), but were still members of "the sect of the Pharisees"(tēs haireseōs tōn Pharisaiōn ). Evidently they still held to the Pharisaic narrowness shown in the attack on Peter (Act 11:2.). Note the dogmatism of their "must"(dei ) after the opposition of Paul and Barnabas to their "except"(ean me ) at Antioch (Act 15:1). They are unconvinced and expected to carry the elders with them. Codex Bezae says that they had appealed to the elders (Act 15:2, Act 15:5). At any rate they have made the issue in open meeting at the height of the jubilation. It is plain from Act 15:6that this meeting was adjourned, for another gathering came together then. It is here that the private conference of which Paul speaks in Gal 2:1-10 took place. It was Paul’ s chance to see the leaders in Jerusalem (Peter, James, and John) and he won them over to his view of Gentile liberty from the Mosaic law so that the next public conference (Acts 15:6-29) ratified heartily the views of Paul, Barnabas, Peter, James, and John. It was a diplomatic triumph of the first order and saved Christianity from the bondage of Jewish ceremonial sacramentalism. So far as we know this is the only time that Paul and John met face to face, the great spirits in Christian history after Jesus our Lord. It is a bit curious to see men saying today that Paul surrendered about Titus and had him circumcised for the sake of peace, the very opposite of what he says in Galatians, "to whom I yielded, no not for an hour."Titus as a Greek was a red flag to the Judaizers and to the compromisers, but Paul stood his ground.

Vincent: Act 15:5 - Arose

Arose

In the assembly.

Vincent: Act 15:5 - Sect

Sect

See on heresies, 2Pe 2:1.

Wesley: Act 15:5 - But certain Pharisees

For even believers are apt to retain their former turn of mind, and prejudices derived therefrom.

Wesley: Act 15:5 - The law of Moses

The whole law, both moral and ritual.

JFB: Act 15:3-6 - being brought on their way by the church

A kind of official escort.

JFB: Act 15:3-6 - they passed through Phenice

(See on Act 11:19).

JFB: Act 15:3-6 - and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy to the brethren

As the converts in those parts were Jewish (Act 11:19), their spirit contrasts favorably with that of others of their nation.

Clarke: Act 15:5 - But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees - This verse appears to be part of the declaration made by Paul and Barnabas to this council: for, having stated how God blessed their ministry among the Gentiles, they proceed to declare how all the good work was likely to be destroyed by certain Pharisees, who, having received the Christian faith, came down to Antioch, and began to teach the necessity of circumcision, etc., and thus filled the minds of the young converted Gentiles with doubtful disputations.

Calvin: Act 15:5 - Certain of the sect of the Pharisees

5.Certain of the sect of the Pharisees It is not without cause that Luke expresseth what kind of men they were which went about to trouble or hinder Paul, even at Jerusalem also. And it is to be thought that the evil flowed from that fountain; and that Luke doth now more plainly express, that there brake out now also fans [disturbers] out of that very same sect, from whence the authors of that wicked dissension came. For though they had given Christ their names, yet there remained relics of their former nature. We know how proud the Pharisees were, how haughty, how lofty their looks were; − ⁸⁹ all which they would have forgotten if they had truly put on Christ. Like as there remained no Phariseeism in Paul, but a great part had gotten the habit of stubbornness by long custom, which they could not shake off so easily by and by. Forasmuch as there reigned most of all among them hypocrisy, they were too much addicted to external rites, which are coverings for vices. They were likewise puffed up with pride, so that they did tyrannously covet to make all other men subject to their decrees. It is well-known how sore sick the monks are of both diseases. Whereby it cometh to pass, that nothing is more cruel than they to oppress the Church, nothing is more wicked or forward than they to despise the Word of God. Moreover, we see many of them which came out of those dens which have cast from them their cowl, and yet can they never forget those conditions which they learned there. − ⁹⁰

TSK: Act 15:5 - rose up certain // certain // That it

rose up certain : or, rose up, said they

certain : the sect, Act 21:20, Act 26:5, Act 26:6; Phi 3:5-8

That it : Act 15:1, Act 15:24; Gal 5:1-3

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Poole: Act 15:5 - The sect of the Pharisees

If these words be taken for St. Luke’ s, the penman of this book, then they declare, that in the church of Jerusalem there were some that did abet the opinion of the necessity of circumcision; but if, (as most probably we may), we take them for the words of St. Paul, they then are part of his narrative to the church there, of what had happened at Antioch.

The sect of the Pharisees these Pharisees were a sect amongst the Jews, (so called from vrp separavit, and may be Englished, separatists), separating from converse with others, by reason of an opinion they had of their own holiness, Luk 18:11 .

Gill: Act 15:5 - But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees // which believed // saying, that it was needful to circumcise them // and to command them to keep the law of Moses

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees,.... Which was the strictest sect of religion among the Jews:

which believed; that Jesus was the Messiah, and professed their faith in him, and were members of the church, though they still retained many of their pharisaical tenets, and are therefore said to be of that sect: these rose up in opposition to Paul and Barnabas, as they were relating their success among the Gentiles, and giving an account of the difference that had happened at Antioch, and their own sense of that matter:

saying, that it was needful to circumcise them: the Gentiles that believed:

and to command them to keep the law of Moses; both moral and ceremonial; the observance of which they reckoned was absolutely necessary to salvation. Some think these are not the words of Luke, relating what happened at Jerusalem, when Paul and Barnabas gave in their account of things to the apostles and elders; but that they are a continuation of their account, how that in the controversy raised at Antioch, certain Pharisees that came thither from Judea, rose up and asserted the necessity of the, Gentiles being circumcised, and of their keeping the law of Moses in order to their being saved; which is favoured by the Syriac version, especially by the Latin interpreter of it, who supplies the words thus, "but say they" (i.e. Paul and Barnabas) "there arose men", &c.