Second Missionary Journey

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning

AD 46

Traditional reckoning

AD 46

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Where is it in the Bible?

• Acts 15:1–18:23

Who was there, and where?

• Simon Peter
• Paul
• Luke
• Silas
• Barnabas
• Timotheus
• John Mark
• Aquila
• Priscilla
• James (Brother of Jesus)
• Lydia

Which verses connect to Acts 15:1?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

1. Galatians 5:617 votes

   For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.

2. Acts 15:514 votes

   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.”

3. Colossians 2:812 votes

   See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

4. Leviticus 12:310 votes

   And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.

5. 1 Corinthians 7:18–1910 votes

   Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

6. Galatians 2:11–1410 votes

   When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For 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. …