What did the Pharisees who believed say the Gentiles had to do in Acts 15:5?
In Acts 15:5, Pharisees who believed insisted Gentiles had to be circumcised and be commanded to keep the law of Moses. They declared it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses. This demand was part of the disputation.
Les explains that in Acts 15:5, amid disputation over whether Gentiles had to be circumcised and keep the Law, certain Pharisees who believed rose up and said it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses. The apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. Les notes there was much disputing; he pictures the Jews not merely seated in a conference room but standing, nose to nose, going at it tooth and toenail. Peter rose up, implying he had been seated.
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.
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What did the believing Pharisees require of the Gentile believers in Acts 15?
The believing Pharisees at the Jerusalem council said it was necessary to circumcise the Gentile believers at Antioch and command them to keep the law of Moses.