The Apostles Accept Paul
1Then fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas; and Titus came along, too. 2I went there because God revealed to me that I should go. While I was there I met privately with those considered to be leaders of the church and shared with them the message I had been preaching to the Gentiles. I wanted to make …
Paul’s Message Comes from Christ
11Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. 12I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.d
13You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion—how I violently persecuted God’s …
Paul’s letter to the Galatians is one of the earliest written books in the Bible, likely written between 15 and 20 years after Jesus crucifixion and resurrection. The Galatians were a small, obviously you church made up of primarily Gentiles. It seems that after Paul left the church to continue his preaching some Jewish converts arrived and tried to convince the Galatians that they needed to follow the old Jewish …