How can we be sure? The book of Acts gives us this report: “Now as they [the apostle Paul and his traveling companions] traveled on through the cities they would deliver to those there for observance the decrees that had been decided upon by the apostles and older men who were in Jerusalem.
کتاب اعمال در این رابطه چنین گزارش می‌دهد :‏ « [پولُس و همکاران میسیونرش] چون از شهری به شهر دیگر می‌رفتند ،‏ اصولی را که رسولان و مشایخ در اورشلیم وضع کرده بودند ،‏ به مردم می‌سپردند تا آنها را رعایت کنند .‏