Acts 15:10

Now therefore When you have this evidence of how God has already accepted the Gentiles.

why tempt ye God Men are said "to tempt God" when they distrust his guidance, and in consequence disobey his revealed will (cp. Psalms 95:9). So the Jews temptedGod in the wilderness (Hebrews 3:9) when they saw His mighty works and yet murmured at His leaders: so they are said to have temptedChrist (1 Corinthians 10:9) when they were punished by the fiery serpents; and Ananias and Sapphira are said to "have agreed to temptthe Spirit of the Lord," by acting as though they thought they could deceive God in their offering. From these instances the force of the question in the text will be seen. Those who should act as the Pharisaic party would recommend, would be distrusting God's knowledge of the hearts of men, and refusing to be guided by what His Spirit had made known in the conversion of Cornelius.

a yoke So St Paul (Galatians 5:1) calls the ceremonial law "a yoke of bondage." Christ uses the word "yoke" for his own precepts, knowing that a yoke was needed for men's guidance, but He calls it "easy" (Matthew 11:30).

able to bear How this was felt is shewn by the Rabbinic injunction to "make a hedge about the law," i.e. so to fence in its precepts by additional regulations of their own, that there should be no chance of infringing the commandment. These additions, commandments of men, as our Lord styles them, had made the ceremonial observances into a killing load.