24seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,
25it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul --
26men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ --
27we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.
28`For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:
29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!`
30They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,
