Acts 15:6-8

⁶The emissaries and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

⁷When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice amongst you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.

⁸God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.