James bore his testimony with decision—that God designed to bring in the Gentiles to enjoy all the privileges of the Jews. The Holy Ghost saw good not to impose the ceremonial law on the Gentile converts; and the apostles and elders, after careful investigation of the subject, saw the matter in the same light, and their mind was as the mind of the Spirit of God. James presided at the council, and his final decision was, “Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God.”{LP 68.2}

Jakob frambar sit vidnesbyrd beslutsomt - at Gud ville lade hedningene nyde alle jødernes privilegier. Helligånden fandt det bedst at ikke pålægge ceremoniloven på nyomvendte hedninge; og efter at have undersøgt sagen omhyggeligt, så apostlene og de ældste sagen i det samme lys, og deres tanker var som Guds Ånds tanker. Jakob havde sædet i det råd, og hans endelige beslutning var: "Derfor holder jeg på, at man ikke skal gøre det for vanskeligt for de hedninger, som vender sig til Gud."