The book of Acts relates: “Now 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.
בספר מעשי ־ השליחים נאמר: ” הם עברו בערים ומסרו להם שיש לשמור את ההלכות שפסקו השליחים והזקנים בירושלים.