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Acts 11:2
Acts 11:2 is verse 2 of Acts chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him
Literally those of the circumcision
King James Version
And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
World English Bible
When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
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Acts 11:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him
3 and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
4 But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events:
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 10:9The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
Acts 10:45All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
Acts 15:1Then 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 15:5But 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 21:20When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
Acts 21:21But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.
Acts 21:22What then should we do? They will certainly hear that you have come.
Acts 21:23Therefore do what we advise you. There are four men with us who have taken a vow.
Galatians 2:12For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
Galatians 2:13The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
Galatians 2:14When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”