001:023 They only heard it said, "He who was once our persecutor is now telling the Good News of the faith of which he formerly made havoc." 001:024 And they gave glory to God on my account. 002:001 Later still, after an interval of fourteen years, I again went up to Jerusalem in company with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. 002:002 I went up in obedience to a revelation of God's will; and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles. To the leaders of the Church this explanation was made in private, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain. 002:003 But although my companion Titus was a Greek they did not insist upon even his being circumcised. 002:004 Yet there was danger of this through the false brethren secretly introduced into the Church, who had stolen in to spy out the freedom which is ours in Christ Jesus, in order to rob us of it. 002:005 But not for an hour did we give way and submit to them; in order that the Good News might continue with you in its integrity. 002:006 From those leaders I gained nothing new. Whether they were men of importance or not, matters nothing to me-- God recognizes no external distinctions. To me, at any rate, the leaders imparted nothing new. 002:007 Indeed, when they saw that I was entrusted with the preaching of the Good News to the Gentiles as Peter had been with that to the Jews-- 002:008 for He who had been at work within Peter with a view to his Apostleship to the Jews had also been at work within me with a view to my Apostleship to the Gentiles-- 002:009 and when they perceived the mission which was graciously entrusted to me, they (that is to say, James, Peter, and John, who were considered to be the pillars of the Church) welcomed Barnabas and me to their fellowship on the understanding that we were to go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews. 002:010 Only they urged that we should remember their poor--a thing which was uppermost in my own mind. 002:011 Now when Peter visited Antioch, I remonstrated with him to his face, because he had incurred just censure. 002:012 For until certain persons came from James he had been accustomed to eat with Gentiles; but as soon as these persons came, he withdrew and separated himself for fear of the Circumcision party. 002:013 And along with him the other Jews also concealed their real opinions, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their lack of straightforwardness.