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Fourteen Years Later The Jerusalem Apostles Added Nothing To My Gospel

Then after fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having also taken along Titus with me. And I went up based-on[a] a revelation, and laid-before them the good-news which I am proclaiming among the Gentiles— but privately, to the ones having-the-reputation-of [b] being somethingthat somehow[c] I might not be running, or have run, in vain[d]. But not even Titus, the one with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:2 Or, in accordance with.
  2. Galatians 2:2 Or, being-recognized-as, being-acknowledged-as.
  3. Galatians 2:2 This rendering expresses Paul’s fear that his work might come to no effect because of the opposition of some in Jerusalem. Or, ‘whether somehow I am running or have run in vain’, expressing the subject to be discussed.
  4. Galatians 2:2 Or, for nothing, to no result.

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem,(A) this time with Barnabas.(B) I took Titus(C) along also. I went in response to a revelation(D) and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles.(E) I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race(F) in vain. Yet not even Titus,(G) who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.(H)

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