⁷ On the contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task^(A) of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised,^[a](B) just as Peter^(C) had been to the circumcised.^{[b] 8} For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle^(D) to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle^(E) to the Gentiles. ⁹ James,^(F) Cephas^[c](G) and John, those esteemed as pillars,^(H) gave me and Barnabas^(I) the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me.^(J) They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles,^(K) and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor,^(L) the very thing I had been eager to do all along.