Acts 15:7 Cross References - Moffatt

⁷ and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

¹⁸ Now I tell you, Peter is your name and on this rock I will build my church; the powers of Hades shall not succeed against it. ¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the Realm of heaven; whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven."

²⁷ John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven.

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

¹⁶ "My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

²⁴ and they prayed, "O Lord, who readest the hearts of all, do thou single out from these two men him whom thou hast chosen

¹⁸ though this was how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the lips of all the prophets, namely the sufferings of his Christ.

²⁵ who said to our fathers by the holy Spirit through the lips of thy servant David, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples vainly conspire?

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

⁵ You must now send some men to Joppa for a certain Simon who is surnamed Peter; ⁶ he is staying with Simon a tanner, whose house stands by the sea."

²⁰ Come, get up and go down, and have no hesitation about accompanying them, for it is I who have sent them."

³² You must send to Joppa and summon Simon who is surnamed Peter; he is staying in the house of Simon a tanner beside the sea.' ³³ So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say." ³⁴ Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites, ³⁵ but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him. ³⁶ You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all); ³⁷ you know how it spread over the whole of Judaea, starting from Galilee after the baptism preached by John — ³⁸ how God consecrated Jesus of Nazaret with the holy Spirit and power, and how he went about doing good and curing all who were harassed by the devil; for God was with him. ³⁹ As for what he did in the land of the Jews and of Jerusalem, we can testify to that. They slew him by hanging him on a gibbet, ⁴⁰ but God raised him on the third day, and allowed him to be seen ⁴¹ not by all the People but by witnesses whom God had previously selected, by us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead, ⁴² when he enjoined us to preach to the People, testifying that this was he whom God has appointed to be judge of the living and of the dead. ⁴³ All the prophets testify that everyone who believes in him is to receive remission of sins through his Name." ⁴⁴ While Peter was still speaking, the holy Spirit fell upon all who listened to what he said. ⁴⁵ Now the Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were amazed that the gift of the holy Spirit had actually been poured out on the Gentiles — ⁴⁶ for they heard them speak with 'tongues' and magnify God. At this Peter asked, ⁴⁷ "Can anyone refuse water for the baptism of these people — people who have received the holy Spirit just as we ourselves have?" ⁴⁸ And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain for some days.

¹² The Spirit told me to have no hesitation in accompanying them; these six brothers went with me as well, and we entered the man's house. ¹³ He related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa for Simon who is surnamed Peter; ¹⁴ he will tell you how you and all your household are to be saved.' ¹⁵ Now just as I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us at the beginning; ¹⁶ and I remembered the saying of the Lord, that 'John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit.' ¹⁷ Well then, if God has given them exactly the same gift as he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I — how could I try to thwart God?" ¹⁸ On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!"

² As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

² As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.

³⁹ So in irritation they parted company, Barnabas taking Mark with him and sailing for Cyprus,

²⁴ But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

¹⁷ (You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.) ¹⁸ But, I ask, "Have they never heard?" Indeed they have. Their voice carried over all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw I had been entrusted with the gospel for the benefit of the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised ⁸ (for He who equipped Peter to be an apostle of the circumcised equipped me as well for the uncircumcised), ⁹ and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

¹⁴ In all that you do, avoid grumbling and disputing,