Galatians 2:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

GALATIANS CHAPTER 2 Galatians 2:1,2 Paul showeth for what purpose after many years he went to Jerusalem. Galatians 2:3-5 That Titus, who went with him, was not circumcised, and that on purpose to assert the freedom of the Gentile converts from the bondage of the law. Galatians 2:6-10 That no new knowledge was added to him in conference with the three chief apostles, but that he received from them a public acknowledgment of his Divine mission to the Gentiles. Galatians 2:11-13 That he openly withstood Peter for dissimulation with respect to Gentile communion. Galatians 2:14-20 Expostulating with him, why he, who believed that justification came by the faith of Christ, acted as though it came by the works of the law. Galatians 2:21 Which was, in effect, to frustrate the grace of God. Fourteen years after; either fourteen years after the three years before mentioned, and the fifteen days; or fourteen years after the conversion of Paul, or fourteen years after the death of Christ. This journey seeming to be that mentioned Acts 15:2, it seems rather to be understood of fourteen years after the death of Christ. I went up again to Jerusalem: motions to Jerusalem are usually in Scripture called ascendings or goings up; either because of the mountains round about it, or in respect of the famousness of the place: see Acts 15:2, Acts 21:4. The occasion of this journey we have, Acts 15:1,2. It was to advise with the apostles and elders, about the necessity of circumcision; some that came from Judea having taught the disciples at Antioch, that except they were circumcised they could not be saved. With Barnabas, and took This with me also; Barnabas was chosen to go with Paul, Acts 15:2, and some others, whom Luke nameth not, but it is plain by this text Titus was one.