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12 For until some people came from James,[a] he had been eating with the Gentiles; but when they arrived, he drew back and kept himself apart because he was afraid of the circumcised. 13 And the rest of the Jews[b] carried out the same pretense that he did, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their pretense.

14 Paul’s Rebuke. But when I saw that their conduct was not in accordance with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of all of them, “You are a Jew, yet you are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How then can you require the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:12 Some people came from James: i.e., Jewish Christians who still believed in the Law and in circumcision (Acts 15:1, 5; 21:20f) and either came from James or claimed to be from him. Circumcised: i.e., Jewish Christians.
  2. Galatians 2:13 Jews: i.e., Jewish Christians.