[20] Gal. i. 18. "Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days." [21] Of any mention made of Galatia, in any of the Books of the New Testament, the following are, according to Cruden's Concordance, the only instances: 1 Cor. xvi. 1. "... have given order to the churches at Galatia." Times, assigned to these Epistles, A.D. 59. 2 Tim. iv. 10: "Crescens is departed to Galatia." A.D. 66. 1 Pet. i. 1: "to the strangers scattered in Galatia." Date A.D. 60. [22] Acts xv. 1-4. 1. "And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.--When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the Apostles and Elders about this question.--And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.--And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the Church, and of the Apostles and Elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them." [23] Be this as it may, that he must have been in the way to hear, from various persons present, accounts, such as they were, of what was said by Paul,--seems to follow almost of course. This seems applicable even to the _latest_ of the two occasions; for, though the place, Cæsarea, was some distance from Jerusalem, 56 miles,--yet the distance was not so great, but that the persons, who were attached to him, might, for the most part, be naturally supposed to have followed him: and in particular the historian, who, according to his history, continued in Paul's suite till, at the conclusion of this his forced excursion, he arrived at Rome. But, on the subject of _possible materials_, one concluding query here presents itself. On a _subject_ such as that in question, on an _occasion_, such as that in question, for a _purpose_ such as that in question, a _speech_ such as either of those in question, might it not, by a person in the historian's situation--not to speak of other situations--be just as easily made without any special materials, as with any the most correct and complete stock of materials? [24] Between Paul's third visit, and that which is here reckoned as his fourth, another is, by some, supposed[I.] to, have been taken place; on which supposition, this concluding one, which is here styled the fourth, ought to be reckoned the fifth. But, for the support of this supposition, the grounds referred to for this purpose do not seem sufficient:--not that, if the supposition were true, any consequence material to the present purpose would follow. For this supposition, what ground there is, consists in a passage in the Acts:--Acts 18:20, 21, 22.