Acts 15:1 meaning and explanation

Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

Acts 15:1, Berean Standard Bible

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Acts 15 opens with unnamed men from Judea arriving in Antioch, where Paul and Barnabas had been teaching a mixed community of Jewish and Gentile believers. These visitors taught that circumcision according to the custom of Moses was required for salvation, turning a sign of the covenant into a condition for belonging.

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