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The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad.
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When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.
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Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, āThe Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.ā
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After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: āBrothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
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The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
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Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
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Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.