¹²And 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. ¹³And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, listen to me: ¹⁴Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name. ¹⁵And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written: ¹⁶After 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, ¹⁷so 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 ¹⁸known from eternity. ¹⁹Wherefore I judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God; ²⁰but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

²²Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren,

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