Acts 15:27-39

²⁷We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

²⁸For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to put on you no greater burden except for these necessary things:

²⁹that you abstain from meat offered to idols, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality; from which keeping yourselves back, you will do well. Farewell.

³⁰Then having been dismissed, they came to Antioch; and having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

³¹And when they had read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement.

³²Now Judas and Silas, themselves being prophets also, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.

³³And after some time, they were dismissed with peace from the brothers to the apostles.

³⁵But Paul and Barnabas spent time in Antioch, teaching and preaching the good news of the word of the Lord, with many others also.

³⁶Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return now and visit our brothers in each city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”

³⁷But Barnabas desired to take along with them John called Mark.

³⁸But Paul considered it fitting not to take along with them the one who withdrew from them in Pamphylia, and who had not gone together with them to the work.

³⁹Therefore a sharp disagreement arose so that they were separated from one another. And Barnabas, taking along Mark, sailed to Cyprus.