Acts 15:12–22

¹²Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had ^mworked through them among the Gentiles. ¹³And after they had ³become silent, ⁿJames answered, saying, “Men and brethren, listen to me: ^14oSimon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. ¹⁵And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:

¹⁶‘After ^pthis I will return

And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down;

I will rebuild its ruins,

And I will set it up;

¹⁷So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,

Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name,

Says the ⁴Lord who does all these things.’

¹⁸⁵“Known to God from eternity are all His works. ¹⁹Therefore ^qI judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who ^rare turning to God, ²⁰but that we ^swrite to them to abstain ^tfrom things polluted by idols, ^ufrom ⁶sexual immorality, ^vfrom things strangled, and from blood. ²¹For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, ^wbeing read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

The Jerusalem Decree

²²Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named ^xBarsabas, ⁷and Silas, leading men among the brethren.