26. men who have handed over their lives on behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27. Therefore, we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, with the spoken word, reaffirm to you the same things.
28. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose no further burden upon you, other than these necessary things:
29. that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell."
30. And so, having been dismissed, they went down to Antioch. And gathering the multitude together, they delivered the epistle.
31. And when they had read it, they were gladdened by this consolation.
32. But Judas and Silas, being also prophets themselves, consoled the brothers with many words, and they were strengthened.
33. Then, after spending some more time there, they were dismissed with peace, by the brothers, to those who had sent them.
34. But it seemed good to Silas to remain there. So Judas alone departed to Jerusalem.
35. And Paul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, with many others, teaching and evangelizing the Word of the Lord.
36. Then, after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return to visit the brothers throughout all the cities in which we have preached the Word of the Lord, to see how they are."
37. And Barnabas wanted to take John, who was surnamed Mark, with them also.
38. But Paul was saying that he ought not to be received, since he withdrew from them at Pamphylia, and he had not gone with them in the work.
39. And there occurred a dissension, to such an extent that they departed from one another. And Barnabas, indeed taking Mark, sailed to Cyprus.
40. Yet truly, Paul, choosing Silas, set out, being delivered by the brothers to the grace of God.
41. And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the Churches, instructing them to keep the precepts of the Apostles and the elders.