Acts 15:29-41

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.

³⁸But Paul thought it was not good to take Mark, who had left them in Pamphylia and did not go further with them in the work.

³⁹Then there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.

⁴⁰But Paul chose Silas and left, after he was entrusted by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.

⁴¹Then he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.