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Acts 15:28-31

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

28. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29. That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. 30. So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: 31. [Which] when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

Acts 15:28-31 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Acts 15:28

Theological / Devotional

Seemed good. The Greek verb is the same here as in v. 25. Jesus had promised that the Spirit of truth would guide His disciples into all truth (John 16:13), and Luke often speaks of them as filled with the Spirit. Hence the men of the council unhesitatingly claimed that their Guide was the Spirit of God. Under the direction of the Spirit of God. Under the direction of the Spirit of the Jewish Christians were laying aside their prejudice of long standing against fellowship with Gentiles. How much better it would have been for the church had it always been honestly able to say that it was under the control and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

No greater burden. The Jews themselves felt this burden in their load of legal observances (see on Acts 15:10; Rev. 2:24).

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