8. And God, who knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us;
9. And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10. Now therefore why test God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12. Then all the multitude kept silence, and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring what miracles and wonders God had done among the Gentiles by them.
13. And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14. Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.