εξανεστησαν 1817 5627 V-2AAI-3P δε 1161 CONJ τινες 5100 X-NPM των 3588 T-GPM απο 575 PREP της 3588 T-GSF αιρεσεως 139 N-GSF των 3588 T-GPM φαρισαιων 5330 N-GPM πεπιστευκοτες 4100 5761 V-RAP-NPM λεγοντες 3004 5723 V-PAP-NPM οτι 3754 CONJ δει 1163 5904 V-PQI-3S περιτεμνειν 4059 5721 V-PAN αυτους 846 P-APM παραγγελλειν 3853 5721 V-PAN τε 5037 PRT τηρειν 5083 5721 V-PAN τον 3588 T-ASM νομον 3551 N-ASM μωυσεως 3475 N-GSM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
5. Arose. In the assembly.Sect. See on heresies, 2 Pet. ii. 1.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
15:5 {But there rose up} (exanestesan de). Second aorist active indicative (intransitive). Note both ex and an. These men rose up out of the crowd at a critical moment. They were believers in Christ (pepisteukotes, having believed), but were still members of "the sect of the Pharisees" (tes hairesews twn farisaiwn). Evidently they still held to the Pharisaic narrowness shown in the attack on Peter (#11:2f.). Note the dogmatism of their "must" (dei) after the opposition of Paul and Barnabas to their "except" (ean me) at Antioch (#15:1). They are unconvinced and expected to carry the elders with them. Codex Bezae says that they had appealed to the elders (#15:2,5). At any rate they have made the issue in open meeting at the height of the jubilation. It is plain from verse #6 that this meeting was adjourned, for another gathering came together qen. It is here that the private conference of which Paul speaks in #Ga 2:1-10 took place. It was Paul's chance to see the leaders in Jerusalem (Peter, James, and John) and he won them over to his view of Gentile liberty from the Mosaic law so that the next public conference (#Ac 15:6-29) ratified heartily the views of Paul, Barnabas, Peter, James, and John. It was a diplomatic triumph of the first order and saved Christianity from the bondage of Jewish ceremonial sacramentalism. So far as we know this is the only time that Paul and John met face to face, the great spirits in Christian history after Jesus our Lord. It is a bit curious to see men saying today that Paul surrendered about Titus and had him circumcised for the sake of peace, the very opposite of what he says in Galatians, "to whom I yielded, no not for an hour." Titus as a Greek was a red flag to the Judaizers and to the compromisers, but Paul stood his ground.
