This meeting at Jerusalem took place in 51, or it may be, 52 A.D. We make no doubt that it is the same with the Council of Acts xv. The identification has been controverted by several able scholars, but without success. The two accounts are different, but in no sense contradictory. In fact, as Dr. Pfleiderer acknowledges,[36] they "admirably supplement each other. The agreement as to the chief points is in any case greater than the discrepancies in the details; and these discrepancies can for the most part be explained by the different standpoint of the relaters." A difficulty lies, however, in the fact that the historian of the Acts makes this the _third_ visit of Paul to Jerusalem subsequently to his conversion; whereas, from the Apostle's statement, it appears to have been the _second_. This discrepancy has already come up for discussion in the last Chapter (p. 92). Two further observations may be added on this point. In the first place, Paul does not say that he had never been to Jerusalem since the visit of ch. i. 18; he does say, that on this occasion he "went up again," and that meanwhile he "remained unknown by face" to the Christians of Judæa (ch. i. 22)--a fact quite compatible, as we have shown, with what is related in Acts xi. 29, 30. And further, the request addressed at this conference to the Gentile missionaries, that they should "remember the poor," and the reference made by the Apostle to his previous zeal in the same business (vv. 9, 10), are in agreement with the earlier visit of charity mentioned by Luke. [36] _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 103. This testimony is the more valuable as coming from the ablest living exponent of the Baurian theory. I. The emphasis of ver. 1 rests upon its last clause,--_taking along with me also Titus_. Not "Titus as well as Barnabas"--this cannot be the meaning of the "also"--for Barnabas was Paul's colleague, deputed equally with himself by the Church of Antioch; nor "Titus as well as others"--there were other members of the deputation (Acts xv. 2), but Paul makes no reference to them. The _also_ (καὶ) calls attention to the fact of Paul's taking _Titus_, in view of the sequel; as though he said, "I not only went up to Jerusalem at this particular time, under Divine direction, but I took along with me Titus besides." The prefixed _with_ (συν-) of the Greek participle refers to Paul himself: compare ver. 3, "Titus who was with me." As for the "certain others" referred to in Acts xv. 2, they were most likely Jews; or if any of them were Gentiles, still it was Titus whom Paul had chosen for his companion; and his case stood out from the rest in such a way that it became the decisive one, the _test-case_ for the matter in dispute.