Book of Common Prayer

Three Years Later I Went To Jerusalem And Visited Peter And James

¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I did not see another of the apostles except^[a] James, the brother of the Lord. ²⁰ Now the things which I am writing to you, behold— I affirm in the sight of God that I am not lying. ²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² And I was not-known by face to the churches of Judea in Christ, ²³ but they were only hearing that “the one once persecuting us is now announcing-as-good-news the faith which he was once destroying”. ²⁴ And they were glorifying God in^[b] me.

Fourteen Years Later The Jerusalem Apostles Added Nothing To My Gospel

2 Then after fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having also taken along Titus with me. ² And I went up based-on^[c] a revelation, and laid-before them the good-news which I am proclaiming among the Gentiles— but privately, to the ones having-the-reputation-of ^[d] being something— that somehow^[e] I might not be running, or have run, in vain^[f]. ³ But not even Titus, the one with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. ⁴ Now^[g] this arose^[h] because of the false-brothers secretly-brought-in, who sneaked-in to spy-out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus in order that they might enslave^[i] us— ⁵ to whom we yielded in submission not-even for an hour, in order that the truth of the good-news might continue^[j] with you. ⁶ And from the ones having-the-reputation-of being something— of-what-sort they ever^[k] were makes no difference to me; God does not receive the face^[l] of a human— indeed to me the ones having-the-reputation communicated nothing. ⁷ But on-the-contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted the good-news for the uncircumcised just as Peter for the circumcised— ⁸ for the One having worked^[m] in Peter for an apostleship of the circumcised worked also in me for the Gentiles— ⁹ and having recognized the grace having been given to me, James and Cephas and John, the ones having-the-reputation-of being pillars, gave the right hands of fellowship to me and Barnabas, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ They asked only that we should be remembering^[n] the poor— as to which, I also was eager to do this very thing.

The Hometown People Are Astounded At Jesus, But Unbelieving

⁵³ And it came about that when Jesus finished these parables, He went-away from there. ⁵⁴ And having come into His hometown^[a], He was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and saying “From where did this wisdom and the miracles come to this One? ⁵⁵ Is not this One the son of the carpenter? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Jude^[b]? ⁵⁶ And His sisters, are they not all with us? From where then did all these things come to this One?” ⁵⁷ And they were taking-offense^[c] at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without-honor except in his hometown and in his house”. ⁵⁸ And He did not do many^[d] miracles there because of their unbelief.