13. When they had finished, James stood and said, “Brothers, listen to me.
14. Peter has told you about the time God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for himself.
15. And this conversion of Gentiles is exactly what the prophets predicted. As it is written:
16. ‘Afterward I will returnand restore the fallen house of David.I will rebuild its ruinsand restore it,
17. so that the rest of humanity might seek the lord,including the Gentiles—all those I have called to be mine.The lord has spoken—
18. he who made these things known so long ago.’