⁴ When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the apostles, the elders, and the church. They told about everything God had done with them. ⁵ But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisee ·group [sect; party; faction] ·came forward [^Lstood up] and said, “·The Gentile believers [^LThey] must be circumcised. They must be ·told to obey [ordered to keep] the law of Moses.”

⁶ The apostles and the elders gathered to consider this ·problem [matter].