7  And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, ye know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe. 8  And the heart-knowing God bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit as to us also, 9  and put no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith. 10  Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11  But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also. 12  And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them. 13  And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, listen to me: 14  Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name. 15  And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written: 16  After these things I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up, 17  so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who does these things 18  known from eternity.