\subsection{Acts 15}
\VS{1} And some, having come down from Judea, were teaching the brothers that: If 
you not be circumcised in the custom of Moses, you are not able to be saved. 
\VS{2} So when not [a] little strife and debate came to pass to Paul and to 
Barnabbas with the, they designated Paul and Barnabbas and some others from 
them to be going up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this 
question. 
\VS{3} Indeed therefore those having been sent by the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} went 
through Phoenicia and Samaria recounting the conversion of the Gentiles, and 
were doing great joy to all the brothers. 
\VS{4} So having arrived in 
Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} and the apostles and the elders, 
and they reported as much as God did with them. 
\VS{5} Now some of those 
from the sect of the Pharisees [who have] believed were astonished, saying that: They 
must be commanded to be being circumcised and to be giving heed to the law 
of Moses. 
\VS{6} And the apostles and the elders were gathered to know 
concerning this word. 
\VS{7} Now much debate having come to pass, Peter 
having stood said to them: Men, brothers, you were persuaded that from [the] 
ancient days God chose among you, the nations, to hear through my mouth the 
word of the good-news and to believe. 
\VS{8} And the heart-knower God 
witnessed to them, having given the Holy Spirit just as to us also, 
\VS{9} 
and differentiated nothing between us and them, having cleansed their hearts 
by belief. 
\VS{10} Now therefore why do you test God, to place [a] yoke upon 
the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor you are able to 
bear? 
\VS{11} But through the grace of the Lord Jesus do we believe to be 
saved according to which manner these [do] also. 
\VS{12} Now all the multitude 
was silent, and they were hearing Barnabbas and Paul describing as much as 
God did signs and wonders among the Gentiles through them. 
\VS{13} Now after 
the silence James answered them saying: Men, brothers, hear me. 
\VS{14} 
Symeon explained just how God first did visit to receive from [the] nations [a] 
people to his name. 
\VS{15} And to this the words of the prophets agree, 
just as it is written\footnote{Amos 9:11-12}:

\begin{verse}
\VS{16} After these [things] I will return \\
And I will rebuild the fallen dwelling [of] David, \\
And its ruins I will rebuild \\
And I will restore it, \\
\VS{17} In order that the remnant of men seek out the Lord \\
And all the nations by whom my name is called by them, \\
\VS{18} Says [the] Lord doing these [things] known from [the] ages.
\end{verse}

\VS{19} Therefore I judge to be not troubling those from the nations
turning to God, 
\VS{20} but write to them to be abstaining from the 
pollutions of idols and of fornication and of [a] strangled [animal] and of [drinking] blood. 
\VS{21} For Moses has from the ancient generations those in every city 
proclaiming him, reading [him] in the synagogues every Sabbath.\footnote{i.e. So 
why should we proclaim Moses too?} 
\VS{22} Then it seemed [good] to the apostles 
and the elders with the whole assembly\fnEkklhsia{}, having chosen men from [among] them, to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabbas: Judas called Barsabba, and Silas, 
leading men among the brothers, 
\VS{23} having written through their hand:

The apostles and the elders brothers to those brothers in Antioch and Syria 
and Cilicia from the Gentiles --- greetings. 
\VS{24} Since we heard that 
some among you disturb you with words unsettling your psyche-lives\fnPsyche{}, by which we are 
not commanded, 
\VS{25} it seemed [good] to us to become of one purpose, having 
chosen to send to you with your agape-beloved Barnabbas and Saul, 
\VS{26} men having delivered up their psyche-lives\fnPsyche{} in behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
\VS{27} We sent therefore Juda and Silas, and those proclaiming the 
same [thing] through word. 
\VS{28} For it seemed [good] to the Holy Spirit and to us to 
place on you no more burden except necessarily these [things]: To abstain from idols 
and [drinking] blood and strangled [animals] and fornication; from which keeping yourselves you 
do well. Farewell.

\VS{30} Indeed therefore having departed, they went down to Antioch, and 
having gathered the multitude, they delivered the letter. 
\VS{31} Now having 
read it, they rejoiced upon the encouragement. 
\VS{32} Juda and Silas, they 
also being prophets, through many words called upon the brothers and 
strengthened [them]; 
\VS{33} So having done time, they departed, with peace from 
the brothers to those having sent them. [But it seemed [good] to Silas to remain 
[with] them]\footnote{omit vs. 34: \papyrus{74}\sinaiticus{}B; include vs. 34: D}. 
\VS{35} 
So Paul and Barnabbas stayed in Antioch, teaching and good-newsing the word 
of the Lord with many others also.

\VS{36} Now after some days Paul said to Barnabbas: Having then returned, 
let us visit the brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of 
the Lord, how they have [things]. 
\VS{37} So Barnabbas wanted to also bring John 
called Mark. 
\VS{38} But Paul requested --- [John being] the [one] having left them from 
Pamphylia and not having come with them to the work --- not to be bringing 
this [one]. 
\VS{39} So sharp disagreement came to pass, so that they separated 
from one another, and Barnabbas having taken Mark sailed to Cypris. 
\VS{40} But Paul having chosen Silas departed, delivered up to the grace of the Lord 
by the brothers. 
\VS{41} So he was going through Syria and Cilicia 
strengthening the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}.
