15:26. Men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:27. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, by word of mouth, tell you the same things.
15:28. For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:
15:29. That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.
From blood, and from things strangled. . .The use of these things, though of their own nature indifferent, was here prohibited, to bring the Jews more easily to admit of the society of the Gentiles; and to exercise the latter in obedience. But this prohibition was but temporary, and has long since ceased to oblige; more especially in the western churches.
15:30. They therefore, being dismissed, went down to Antioch and, gathering together the multitude, delivered the epistle.
15:31. Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
15:32. But Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, with many words comforted the brethren and confirmed them.
15:33. And after they had spent some time there, they were let go with peace by the brethren unto them that had sent them.
15:34. But it seemed good unto Silas to remain there: and Judas alone departed to Jerusalem.