# Acts 15:5

> But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”

— Acts 15:5, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Jerusalem** (Judea · today Jerusalem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jerusalem

## When

- c. AD 49 (counted from the text)
- Date source: The Council of Jerusalem, fourteen years after the conversion by the count of Galatians 2:1.

## Who ruled

- **Claudius**, emperor of Rome, AD 41-54 · Source: Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII

## What happened

- **The Council of Jerusalem** (AD 49)
  The question is whether a Gentile has to become a Jew to follow Jesus. The answer is no, and it defines Christianity as a separate religion.

## See also

- Galatians 5:1-3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/galatians/5/1
- Acts 15:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/15/1
- Philippians 3:5-8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/philippians/3/5
- Acts 15:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/15/24
- Acts 21:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/21/20

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/15/5
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/15
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).