The book of Acts tells us: “As they 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 رسولان به ما می‌گوید :‏ « در هر شهری که میگشتند قانونها را که رسولان و کشیشان در اورشلیم حکم فرموده بودند بدیشان میسپردند تا حفظ نمایند .‏