E. Zuckschwerdt, ZNW 68 (1977), 122–31. G. Zuntz, Opuscula Selecta (1972), 216–51. The meeting planned in the preceding paragraph takes place. It does not take the form of a trial (so that the Western reading in 15:2 does not correspond to Luke’s intention) but rather of a general discussion of a question of practice. B. Gerhardsson (Memory and Manuscript (1961), 249–61) compares it to a rabbinic discussion of a piece of halakah, and thinks it to be an example of the διακονία τοῦ λόγου
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