Atos 11:2

2 Assim, quando Pedro subiu a Jerusalém, os que eram do partido dos circuncisos o criticavam, dizendo:

Atos 11:2 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:2

And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem
From Caesarea, after he had stayed some certain days in Cornelius's house; so a journey from Caesarea to Jerusalem is called an ascending from the one to the other, ( Acts 25:1 ) because Jerusalem stood on higher ground, as well as was the metropolis of the country; and this was a journey of six hundred furlongs, or seventy five miles, for so far, according to Josephus ^F20, was Caesarea distant from Jerusalem:

they that were of the circumcision,
which phrase designs not only the circumcised Jews that believed in Christ, for such were all they of the church at Jerusalem, or at least proselytes that had been circumcised, for as yet there were no uncircumcised Gentiles among them; but those of them, who were most strenuous for circumcision, and made it not only a bar of church communion, but even of civil conversation:

these contended with him;
litigated the point, disputed the matter with him, complained against him, and quarrelled with him. Epiphanius says ^F21, that Cerinthus, that arch-heretic, was at the head of this contention.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 De Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 3. sect. 5.
F21 Contr. Haeres. l. 1. Haeres. 28.

Atos 11:2 In-Context

1 Os apóstolos e os irmãos de toda a Judeia ouviram falar que os gentios também haviam recebido a palavra de Deus.

2 Assim, quando Pedro subiu a Jerusalém, os que eram do partido dos circuncisos o criticavam, dizendo:

3 “Você entrou na casa de homens incircuncisos e comeu com eles”.

4 Pedro, então, começou a explicar-lhes exatamente como tudo havia acontecido:

5 “Eu estava na cidade de Jope, orando; caindo em êxtase, tive uma visão. Vi algo parecido com um grande lençol sendo baixado do céu, preso pelas quatro pontas, e que vinha até o lugar onde eu estava.