² This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem^(A) to see the apostles and elders^(B) about this question.

⁴ 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.^(A)

⁵ Then some of the believers who belonged to the party^(B) of the Pharisees^(C) stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.”^(D)