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and after there had been a long discussion Peter rose to his feet. "It is within your own knowledge," he said, "that God originally made choice among you that from my lips the Gentiles were to hear the Message of the Good News, and believe.

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And God, who knows all hearts, gave His testimony in their favour by bestowing the Holy Spirit on them just as He did on us;

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and He made no difference between us and them, in that He cleansed their hearts by their faith.

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Then the whole assembly remained silent while they listened to the statement made by Paul and Barnabas as to all the signs and marvels that God had done among the Gentiles through their instrumentality.

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And this is in harmony with the language of the Prophets, which says:

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"`"Afterwards I will return, and will rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will set it up again;

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In order that the rest of mankind may earnestly seek the Lord--even all the nations which are called by My name,"

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Yet let us send them written instructions to abstain from things polluted by connexion with idolatry, from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

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Thereupon it was decided by the Apostles and Elders, with the approval of the whole Church, to choose suitable persons from among themselves and send them to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas. Judas, called Bar-sabbas, and Silas, leading men among the bret

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and they took with them the following letter: "The Apostles and the elder brethren send greeting to the Gentile brethren throughout Antioch, Syria and Cilicia.

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As we have been informed that certain persons who have gone out from among us have disturbed you by their teaching and have unsettled your minds, without having received any such instructions from us;

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we have unanimously decided to select certain men and send them to you in company with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

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We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who are themselves bringing you the same message by word of mouth.

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For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no burden heavier than these necessary requirements--

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You must abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear of these things, and it will be well with you. Farewell."

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They, therefore, having been solemnly sent, came down to Antioch, where they called together the whole assembly and delivered the letter.

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And Judas and Silas, being themselves also Prophets, gave them a long and encouraging talk, and strengthened them in the faith.

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But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and, in company with many others, telling the Good News of the Lord's Message.

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Barnabas, however, was bent on taking with them John, whose other name was Mark,

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while Paul deemed it undesirable to have as their companion one who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work.

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and he passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the Churches.

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He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. At Lystra he found a disciple, Timothy by name--the son of a Christian Jewess, though he had a Greek father.

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Timothy was well spoken of by the brethren at Lystra and Iconium,

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and Paul desiring that he should accompany him on his journey, took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

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As they journeyed on from town to town, they handed to the brethren for their observance the decisions which had been arrived at by the Apostles and Elders in Jerusalem.

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