The council at Jerusalem
Acts 15:1–35; Galatians 2:1–10
When some insisted that Gentile believers must be circumcised, the apostles and elders met in Jerusalem. Peter, Paul, and Barnabas told of God's work among the Gentiles, and James proposed that they not be burdened with the Law, apart from a few requests.
But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.
Acts 15:11 (World English Bible)
Peter declared that Jews and Gentiles alike are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus. James cited the prophets (Amos 9:11–12) and proposed that Gentile believers abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from what was strangled, and from sexual immorality. A letter was sent to the churches by Judas and Silas, and the Gentile believers rejoiced at its encouragement.
Places
JerusalemJudeaAntiochSamariaCiliciaSyriaPhoenicia
Dating notes
Ussher: AD 52, fourteen years after Paul's first visit to Jerusalem (Galatians 2:1). Dates for Paul's journeys follow the conventional chronology, anchored by an inscription at Delphi, found in 1905, that dates Gallio's term as proconsul of Achaia (Acts 18:12) to AD 51–52; Ussher, who could not have known it, runs two to three years later.