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1Some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised in the tradition of Moses, you cannot be saved.”[#Ac 15:5, 24]
2Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others among them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.[#Ac 15:4, 6–7, 22–23]
3So being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and they brought great joy to all the brothers.[#Ac 14:27]
4When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared what God had done through them.[#Ac 14:27; 15:12]
5Then some believers of the sect of the Pharisees rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.”[#Ac 15:1]
6The apostles and elders assembled to consider this matter.[#Ac 15:25]
7After much disputing, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that some time ago God decided among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.[#Ac 15:2; #Ac 10:20]
8God, who knows the heart, approved of them, giving them the Holy Spirit just as He did to us,[#Ac 1:24; #Ac 2:4]
9and made no distinction between them and us, and purified their hearts by faith.[#Ac 10:28, 34]
10Now then, why test God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?[#Mt 23:4; Gal 5:1]
11But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.”[#Ro 3:24; 2Co 13:14]
12The entire assembly remained silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.[#Ac 14:27; 15:4]
13After they had become silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.[#Ac 12:17]
14Simon has declared how God first visited the Gentiles to take from among them a people for His name.[#2Pe 1:1; #Isa 43:21]
15With this the words of the prophets agree. As it is written:
16‘After this I will return,
and I will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen;
I will rebuild its ruins,
and I will set it up;
17that the rest of men may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who are called by My name,
says the Lord who does all these things.’
18Known to God are all His works since the beginning of the world.
19“Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who are turning to God,[#Ac 15:28]
20but that we write to them to abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.[#Ge 9:4; Ac 15:29]
21For Moses has had in every city since early generations those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”[#Ac 13:15, 27]
22Then it pleased the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas called Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers.[#Ac 15:27, 32, 40; 1Th 1:1]
23They wrote this letter by their hand:
30So when they were dismissed, they went down to Antioch. And when they had assembled the congregation, they delivered the letter.
31When they had read it, they rejoiced over the exhortation.
32Judas and Silas, being prophets themselves, exhorted the brothers with many words and strengthened them.[#Ac 13:1; #Ac 11:23]
33After they had remained there for a time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to the apostles.[#Ac 16:36; 1Co 16:11]
34But it seemed good to Silas to remain there.
35And Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.[#Ac 13:1]
36After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit our brothers in every city where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”[#Ac 13:4, 13–14]
37Barnabas determined to take with them John, who was called Mark.[#Ac 12:12]
38But Paul thought it was not good to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.[#Ac 13:13]
39Then there arose a sharp contention, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus,[#Ac 4:36]
40but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.[#Ac 15:22; #Ac 14:26]
41And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.[#Ac 15:23; #Ac 15:32]