1   And certaine comming dovvne from Ievvrie, taught the brethren: That ^note vnles you be circumcised according to the maner of Moyses, you can not be saued.

2   No litle sedition therfore being risen to Paul and Barnabas against them, they09Q0913 appointed that Paul and Barnabas should goe vp, & certaine others of ^note the rest, to the Apostles and ^note priests vnto Hierusalem, vpon this question.

3   They therfore being brought on their vvay by the Church, passed through Phœnîce and Samaria, reporting the conuersion of the Gentiles: and they made great ioy to al the brethren.

4   And vvhen they vvere come to Hierusalem, they vvere receiued of the Church and of the Apostles and ^{note note} Auncients, declaring vvhatsoeuer God had done vvith them.

5   And there arose certaine of the heresie of the Pharisees that beleeued, saying, That they must be circumcised, commaunded also to keepe the lavv of Moyses.

6   And the09Q0914 Apostles and Auncients09Q0915 assembled to consider of this vvord.

7   And vvhen there vvas made a ^note great disputation,09Q0916 Peter rising vp said to them, Men brethren, you knovv that ^note of old daies God among vs09Q0917 chose, that by my mouth the Gentiles should heare the vvord of the Gospel, and beleeue.

8   And God vvhich knovveth the hartes, gaue testimonie, ^note giuing vnto them the holy Ghost as vvel as to vs,

9   and hath put no difference betvvene vs and them, ^note by faith purifying their hartes.

10   Novv therfore vvhy tempt you God, to put a yoke vpon the neckes of the disciples, vvhich neither our fathers nor vve haue been able to beare?

11   but by the grace of our Lord Iesvs Christ vve beleeue to be saued, in like maner as they also.

12   And al the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas and Paul telling vvhat great signes and vvonders God had done among the Gentiles by them.

13   And after they held their peace,09Q0918 Iames ansvvered, saying, Men brethren, heare me.

14   Simon hath told hovv God first visited to take of the Gentiles a people to his name.

15   And to this accord the vvordes of the prophets, as it is vvrirten:

16   After these things I vvil returne, and vvil reedifie the tabernacle of Dauid vvhich vvas fallen, and the ruines thereof I vvil reedifie, and set it vp:

17   that the residue of men may seeke after the Lord, and al nations vpon vvhom my name is inuocated, saith the Lord that doeth these things. ^note

18   To our Lord vvas his ovvne vvorke knovven from the beginning of the vvorld.

19   For the vvhich cause09Q0919 I iudge, that they vvhich of the Gentiles are conuerted to God, are not to be disquieted,

20   but to vvrite vnto them that they refraine them selues from the contaminations of Idols, and 09Q0920 fornication, and strangled things, and bloud.

21   For Moyses of old times hath in euery citie them that preach him in the synagogs, vvhere he is read euery Sabboth.

22   Then it pleased the Apostles and Auncients vvith the vvhole Church, to chose men out of them, & to send to Antioche vvith Paul and Barnabas, Iudas, vvho vvas surnamed Barsabas, & Silas, cheefe men among the brethren,

23    ^notevvriting by their handes.

23   The Apostles and Auncients, the brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioche and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting.

24   Because vve haue heard that certaine09Q0921 going forth from vs, haue troubled you vvith vvordes, subuerting your soules, to vvhom vve gaue no commaundement:

25   It hath pleased vs being gathered in one, to chose out men and to send them vnto you vvith our deerest Barnabas and Paul,

26   men that haue giuen their liues for the name of our Lord Iesvs Christ:

27   Vve haue sent therfore Iudas & Silas, vvho them selues also vvil in vvordes report vnto you the same things.

28   For it hath seemed good09Q0922 to the holy Ghost & to vs, to lay no further burden vpon you then these necessarie things:

29   that you absteine from the things immolated to Idols, and bloud, and that vvhich is strangled, and fornication, from the vvhich things keeping your selues, you shal doe vvell. Fare ye vvel.

30   They therfore being dimissed vvent dovvne to Antioche: and gathering the multitude, deliuered the epistle.

31   Vvhich vvhen they had read, they09Q0923 reioyced vpon the consolation:

32   but Iudas and Silas, them Selues also being prophets, vvith many vvordes comforted the brethren, and confirmed them.

33   And hauing spent some time there, they vvere vvith peace dimissed of the brethren vnto them that had sent them.

34   But it seemed good vnto Silas to remaine there: and Iudas departed alone:

35   and Paul and Barnabas taried at Antioche, teaching and euangelizing vvith many others the vvord of our Lord.

36   And after certaine daies, Paul said to Barnabas, Let vs returne and ^note visite our brethren in al cities vvherein vve ^note haue preached the vvord of our Lord, hovv they doe.

37   And Barnabas vvould haue taken vvith them Iohn also that vvas surnamed Marke.

38   But Paul desired that he (as vvho ^note had departed from them out of Pamphylia, and had not gone vvith them to the vvorke) might not be receiued.

39   And there rose a09Q0924 dissention, so that they departed one from an other, & that Barnabas in deede taking Marke sailed to Cypres.

40   But

Paul chosing Silas departed, being deliuered of the brethren to the grace of God.

41   And he vvalked through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the Churches: ^note commaunding them to keepe the præcepts of the Apostles and the Auncients.

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