Acts 15:29
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- c. AD 49
WHEN
c. AD 49
counted from the text
The decision that Gentiles do not have to become Jews.
WHO RULED
- Claudius emperor of Rome AD 41-54
MEANWHILE
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c. AD 49 Italy
Claudius expels the Jews from Rome
That is why Aquila and Priscilla are in Corinth when Paul arrives, in Acts 18:2.
SOURCES
- date — The Council of Jerusalem, fourteen years after the conversion by the count of Galatians 2:1.
- Claudius — Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII
- Claudius expels the Jews from Rome — Suetonius, Claudius 25.4; Orosius VII.6
SEE ALSO
- Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- Acts 21:25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from…
- Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
- Revelation 2:20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food…
- Leviticus 17:14 For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever…
- Romans 14:20-21 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block. …
- 1 Corinthians 10:18-20 Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar? …
- 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
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