25This being so, all of us have agreed to choose men and to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas, who will tell you the same thing themselves in their own words.
28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, blood, things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, it shall be well with you. Farewell.”
30So they, when they were dismissed, came down to Antioch; after they gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
31When they had read it, they rejoiced because of the encouragement.
32Judas and Silas, also prophets, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
33After they had spent some time there, they were sent away in peace from the brothers to those who had sent them.
35But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch along with many others, where they taught and proclaimed the word of the Lord.
36After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return now and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”
37Barnabas wanted to also take with them John who was called Mark.