among those entrusted with delivering this letter, but even while delegating this duty to Paul, Acts appears to subordinate Paul to the Jerusalem leadership. Acts reports that the letter was handed down from the “apostles and elders” (15:23), a group that apparently did not include Paul. Remember that Paul had been sent to Jerusalem for the specific purpose of conferring with “the apostles and elders” (15:2), not with “the other apostles and elders.” As a side note, Paul’s relationship to this letter