7. After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.
8. And God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us;
9. and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
10. Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
11. But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are."
12. All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
13. After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, "Brethren, listen to me.
14. Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.