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\subsection{Acts 15}
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\VS{1} And some, having come down from Judea, were teaching the brothers that: If
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you not be circumcised in the custom of Moses, you are not able to be saved.
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\VS{2} So when not [a] little strife and debate came to pass to Paul and to
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Barnabbas with the, they designated Paul and Barnabbas and some others from
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them to be going up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this
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question.
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\VS{3} Indeed therefore those having been sent by the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} went
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through Phoenicia and Samaria recounting the conversion of the Gentiles, and
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were doing great joy to all the brothers.
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\VS{4} So having arrived in
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Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} and the apostles and the elders,
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and they reported as much as God did with them.
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\VS{5} Now some of those
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from the sect of the Pharisees [who have] believed were astonished, saying that: They
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must be commanded to be being circumcised and to be giving heed to the law
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of Moses.
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\VS{6} And the apostles and the elders were gathered to know
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concerning this word.
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\VS{7} Now much debate having come to pass, Peter
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having stood said to them: Men, brothers, you were persuaded that from [the]
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ancient days God chose among you, the nations, to hear through my mouth the
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word of the good-news and to believe.
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\VS{8} And the heart-knower God
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witnessed to them, having given the Holy Spirit just as to us also,
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\VS{9}
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and differentiated nothing between us and them, having cleansed their hearts
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by belief.
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\VS{10} Now therefore why do you test God, to place [a] yoke upon
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the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor you are able to
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bear?
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\VS{11} But through the grace of the Lord Jesus do we believe to be
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saved according to which manner these [do] also.
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\VS{12} Now all the multitude
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was silent, and they were hearing Barnabbas and Paul describing as much as
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God did signs and wonders among the Gentiles through them.
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\VS{13} Now after
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the silence James answered them saying: Men, brothers, hear me.
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\VS{14}
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Symeon explained just how God first did visit to receive from [the] nations [a]
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people to his name.
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\VS{15} And to this the words of the prophets agree,
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just as it is written\footnote{Amos 9:11-12}:
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\begin{verse}
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\VS{16} After these [things] I will return \\
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And I will rebuild the fallen dwelling [of] David, \\
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And its ruins I will rebuild \\
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And I will restore it, \\
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\VS{17} In order that the remnant of men seek out the Lord \\
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And all the nations by whom my name is called by them, \\
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\VS{18} Says [the] Lord doing these [things] known from [the] ages.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{19} Therefore I judge to be not troubling those from the nations
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turning to God,
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\VS{20} but write to them to be abstaining from the
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pollutions of idols and of fornication and of [a] strangled [animal] and of [drinking] blood.
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\VS{21} For Moses has from the ancient generations those in every city
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proclaiming him, reading [him] in the synagogues every Sabbath.\footnote{i.e. So
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why should we proclaim Moses too?}
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\VS{22} Then it seemed [good] to the apostles
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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,
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leading men among the brothers,
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\VS{23} having written through their hand:
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The apostles and the elders brothers to those brothers in Antioch and Syria
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and Cilicia from the Gentiles --- greetings.
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\VS{24} Since we heard that
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some among you disturb you with words unsettling your psyche-lives\fnPsyche{}, by which we are
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not commanded,
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\VS{25} it seemed [good] to us to become of one purpose, having
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chosen to send to you with your agape-beloved Barnabbas and Saul,
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\VS{26} men having delivered up their psyche-lives\fnPsyche{} in behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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\VS{27} We sent therefore Juda and Silas, and those proclaiming the
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same [thing] through word.
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\VS{28} For it seemed [good] to the Holy Spirit and to us to
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place on you no more burden except necessarily these [things]: To abstain from idols
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and [drinking] blood and strangled [animals] and fornication; from which keeping yourselves you
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do well. Farewell.
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\VS{30} Indeed therefore having departed, they went down to Antioch, and
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having gathered the multitude, they delivered the letter.
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\VS{31} Now having
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read it, they rejoiced upon the encouragement.
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\VS{32} Juda and Silas, they
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also being prophets, through many words called upon the brothers and
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strengthened [them];
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\VS{33} So having done time, they departed, with peace from
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the brothers to those having sent them. [But it seemed [good] to Silas to remain
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[with] them]\footnote{omit vs. 34: \papyrus{74}\sinaiticus{}B; include vs. 34: D}.
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\VS{35}
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So Paul and Barnabbas stayed in Antioch, teaching and good-newsing the word
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of the Lord with many others also.
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\VS{36} Now after some days Paul said to Barnabbas: Having then returned,
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let us visit the brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of
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the Lord, how they have [things].
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\VS{37} So Barnabbas wanted to also bring John
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called Mark.
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\VS{38} But Paul requested --- [John being] the [one] having left them from
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Pamphylia and not having come with them to the work --- not to be bringing
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this [one].
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\VS{39} So sharp disagreement came to pass, so that they separated
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from one another, and Barnabbas having taken Mark sailed to Cypris.
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\VS{40} But Paul having chosen Silas departed, delivered up to the grace of the Lord
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by the brothers.
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\VS{41} So he was going through Syria and Cilicia
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strengthening the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}.
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