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Defending the Gospel

1 Then after fourteen years aI went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me.  
2 And I went up1 by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but aprivately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means bI might run, or had run, in vain.  
3 Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4 And this occurred because of afalse brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our bliberty which we have in Christ Jesus, cthat they might bring us into bondage),  
5 to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that athe truth of the gospel might continue with you.  
6 But from those awho seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; bGod shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed to be something cadded nothing to me.  
7 But on the contrary, awhen they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised bhad been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter  
8 (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the acircumcised balso cworked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),  
9 and when James,1 Cephas, and John, who seemed to be apillars, perceived bthe grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, cthat we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.  
10 They desired only that we should remember the poor, athe very thing which I also was eager to do.  

No Return to the Law

11 aNow when1 Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed;  
12 for before certain men came from James, ahe would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing1 those who were of the circumcision.  
13 And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about athe truth of the gospel, I said to Peter bbefore them all, c“If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews,1 why do you compel Gentiles to live as2 Jews?  
15 aWe who are Jews by nature, and not bsinners of the Gentiles,  
16 aknowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but bby faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not cby the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.  
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Galatians 2:1

Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again (epeita dia dekatessarwn etwn palin anebhn) This use of dia for interval between is common enough. Paul is not giving a recital of his visits to Jerusalem, but of his points of contact with the apostles in Jerusalem. As already observed, he here refers to the Jerusalem Conference given by Luke in Acts 15 when Paul and Barnabas were endorsed by the apostles and elders and the church over the protest of the Judaizers who had attacked them in Antioch (Acts 15:1 f.). But Paul passes by another visit to Jerusalem, that in Acts 11:30 when Barnabas and Saul brought alms from Antioch to Jerusalem and delivered them to "the elders" with no mention of the apostles who were probably out of the city since the events in Acts 12 apparently preceded that visit and Peter had left for another place (Acts 12:17). Paul here gives the inside view of this private conference in Jerusalem that came in between the two public meetings (Acts 15:4, Acts 15:6-29).

With Barnabas (meta Barnaba). As in Acts 15:2.

Taking Titus also with me (sunparalabwn kai Titon). Second aorist active participle of sunparalambanw the very verb used in Acts 15:37 f. of the disagreement between Paul and Barnabas about Mark. Titus is not mentioned in Acts 15 nor anywhere else in Acts for some reason, possibly because he was Luke's own brother. But his very presence was a challenge to the Judaizers, since he was a Greek Christian.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Galatians 2:1:

Acts 15:1
Acts 15:2
Acts 15:5
Acts 15:37
Acts 18:7
1 Corinthians 8:1
Titus 1:4

 

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