s which are of absolute necessity; (29)that ye
abstain from eating whatever is sacrificed to idols, and from blood,
and from what is strangled, and from whoredom: from which things
carefully preserving yourselves, ye shall do well. Farewell.

(30)They then being thus dispatched, came to Antioch: and assembling
the multitude, they delivered the letter: (31)and when they had read
it, they rejoiced in the consolation _of it_. (32)Then Judas and
Silas, being also themselves prophets, exhorted the brethren, in many a
discourse, and established them. (33)And having stayed their time, they
were dismissed in peace from the brethren to the apostles. (34)However
Silas thought proper to abide there. (35)Paul also and Barnabas abode
at Antioch, teaching and preaching, with many others also, the word of
the Lord.

(36)Then after certain days said Paul to Barnabas, Let us now return
and visit our brethren in every city among whom we have preached the
word of the Lord, that we may see how they hold on. (37)Now Barnabas
had resolved to take with him John, whose surname is Mark. (38)But Paul
did not think him a fit person to take with them, who had withdrawn
from them from Pamphylia, and no longer went with them to the service.
(39)So there grew up a sudden quarrel, insomuch that they separated
from each other: and Barnabas, taking Mark with him, sailed away to
Cyprus: (40)but Paul selecting Silas, departed, being commended by the
brethren to the favour of God. (41)And he passed through Syria and
Cilicia, confirming the churches.

CHAP. XVI.

THEN he came to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold! a certain disciple was
there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman, who believed;
but his father was a Greek: (2)who was highly spoken of by the brethren
at Lystra and Iconium. (3)Him Paul resolved to take out with him; and
took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places:
for they all knew his father, that he was a Greek. (4)So as they passed
through the cities, they delivered to them for their observance the
ordinances decreed by the apostles and presbyters that were at
Jerusalem.

(5)Then were the churches established truly in the faith, and increased
in number daily. (6)So passing through Phrygia and the region of
Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia,
(7)coming as far as Mysia, they made an effort to go unto Bythinia: but
the Spirit permitted them not. (8)Whereupon passing by M