Acts 15:2-21 A dissension therefore arising, and Paul and Barnabas having no small dispute with them, it was resolved that Paul and Barnabas, and some others, should go up to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem about this question.

Worsley⁽ⁱ⁾ ² A dissension therefore arising, and Paul and Barnabas having no small dispute with them, it was resolved that Paul and Barnabas, and some others, should go up to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem about this question. ³ They therefore, being brought forward on their way by the church, passed through Phenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles: and they gave great joy to all the brethren. ⁴ And when they came to Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and elders, and they told them all that God had done by them. ⁵ But there rose up, said they, some of the sect of the pharisees that believed, saying, that it was necessary to circumcise them, and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses. ⁶ So the apostles and elders were assembled together to consider about this matter. ⁷ And after much debate, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Brethren, ye know that a good while ago, God, who was among us, chose that the Gentiles should hear by my mouth the word of the gospel, and believe. ⁸ And God who knoweth the heart, bare witness to them, giving them the holy Spirit, as He had done also to us: ⁹ and made no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith. ¹⁰ Now therefore why do ye tempt God, in imposing a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? ¹¹ But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, in like manner as they. ¹² And all the multitude kept silence, and gave attention to Barnabas and Paul, relating what signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. ¹³ And after they had done speaking, James rose up and said, Brethren, hearken unto me. ¹⁴ ---Simeon hath related, how God at first condescended to take out of the Gentiles a people to his name. ¹⁵ And to this agree the words of the prophets, ¹⁶ as it is written, "After this will I return, and rebuild the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will repair its ruins, and set it up again. ¹⁷ That the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the nations, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord who doth all these things." ¹⁸ Now all his works are known unto God from the beginning of the world: ¹⁹ wherefore my advice is, not to trouble those who from among the Gentiles are converted to God; but to write to them, ²⁰ that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For Moses hath had from ancient times those that preach him in every city, and is still read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.