What was the yoke that Peter said no one could bear in Acts 15:10?
The yoke was the law. In Acts 15:10 Peter asks why they would test God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither their fathers nor they were able to bear. The context calls the law weak, beggarly, and a burden, while hearts are purified by faith, with no difference between Jew and Gentile.
Les teaches that Peter’s reference in Acts 15:10 is to the law. Peter had just acknowledged that God put no difference between Jew and Gentile, purifying their hearts by faith. The law was weak and beggarly, a yoke and burden that neither the fathers nor Peter’s own generation were able to bear. Les connects this to Galatians 5, where Paul uses the very same words, and notes that many people still think they can somehow get to heaven by keeping the commandments and doing the best they can.
Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
More Questions
What yoke did Peter say no one could bear?
Peter asked why they would test God by putting a yoke on the disciples when neither their fathers nor Peter himself could bear that yoke.
Why does Peter call the law of Moses a yoke in Acts 15:10?
The law requested of the Gentiles was a yoke and a burden that neither the Jewish fathers nor Peter's own generation were able to bear, which is why Peter asks why they would test God by putting it on the disciples.
What is the yoke that Peter says neither the fathers nor the apostles could bear?
The yoke Peter refers to in Acts 15:10 is the demands of the Mosaic law, which neither the fathers nor the apostles themselves were able to keep.