Acts 15:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And after they had held their peace,— The silence being renewed, the apostle James made a speech, in which he summed up the debate, and formed the question, to which they all unanimously agreed. Hence it is plain, that the matter was not determined by virtue of any superior authority in St. Peter; and it seems very providential that St. James should have made sucha speech on this occasion; and that he should have used the expression κρινω, I determine, Acts 15:19 which, had it been found in St. Peter's speech, would have been a much more plausible argument in favor of his weakly boasted supremacy, than the whole scripture now affords.