¹⁸ On the following day Paul went in with us to ^(A)James, and all ^(B)the elders were present.

¹³ After they finished speaking, ^(A)James replied, “Brothers, listen to me.

^30 (A)And they did so, sending it to ^(B)the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

Greeting

1 ^(A)James, a servant^[a] of God and ^(B)of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To ^(C)the twelve tribes in ^(D)the Dispersion:

Greetings.

⁹ and when James and Cephas and John, ^(A)who seemed to be ^(B)pillars, perceived the ^(C)grace that was given to me, they ^(D)gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

¹⁹ But I saw none of the other apostles except James ^(A)the Lord's brother.

Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders

¹⁷ Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called ^(A)the elders of the church to come to him.

²³ with the following letter: ^(A)“The brothers, both ^(B)the apostles and the elders, to the brothers^[a] who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, ^(C)greetings.

^6 (A)The ^(B)apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.

² And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and ^(A)debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and ^(B)some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to ^(C)the apostles and the elders about this question.