Acts 15:27-39

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

²⁸For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no further burden except these necessary things:

²⁹to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Farewell.”

³⁰They therefore being sent away came to Antioch; and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

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

³²And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them.

³³And when they had remained some time, they were dismissed with peace from the brethren to those who sent them.

³⁵But Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and publishing, with many others also, the glad tidings of the word of the Lord.

³⁶And some days after, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit the brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are.

³⁷And Barnabas determined to take with them John, called Mark.

³⁸But Paul did not think it proper to take with them a man who had left them in Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

³⁹And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted from each other, and Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus.