The Jerusalem Council Convenes

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The emissaries and the elders met to look into this matter.

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After lengthy debate, Kefa got up and said to them, “Brothers, you yourselves know that a good while back, God chose me from among you to be the one by whose mouth the Goyim should hear the message of the Good News and come to trust.

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And God, who knows the heart, bore them witness by giving the Ruach HaKodesh to them, just as he did to us;

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that is, he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their heart by trust.

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So why are you putting God to the test now by placing a yoke on the neck of the talmidim which neither our fathers nor we have had the strength to bear?

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No, it is through the love and kindness of the Lord Yeshua that we trust and are delivered — and it’s the same with them.”

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Then the whole assembly kept still as they listened to Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul tell what signs and miracles God had done through them among the Gentiles.

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