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.