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Galatians 2: 1 - 14.
A | 1, 2. | a | PAUL goes to Jerusalem for the faith.
b | BARNABAS stands fast with him.
B | 3-5. | c | Titus a Greek not compelled to be circumcised.
d | Paul's stand for THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL.
C | 6-10. | e | Those who seemed to be somewhat.
f | Nothing added to me.
g | Gospel of the Circumcision.--PETER.
g | Gospel of the Uncircumcision.--PAUL.
e | Those who seemed to be pillars.
f | Only . . . Remember the poor.
A | 11-13. | a | PETER comes to Antioch; overthrows the faith.
b | Even BARNABAS carried away.
B | 14. |
d | Peter's walk against THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL.
c | Compelled Gentiles to Judaize.
In this analysis, Paul's absolute equality with the Twelve is made perfectly clear. The
words of 100: H. Welch are to the point here:
"Notice how the structure brings into severe contrast the two chief actors.
Paul's name is associated with a supreme fight for freedom and for the truth of
the gospel. Peter's name is associated with blame, dissimulation, and with a
walk contrary to the truth of the gospel. With the champion of reconciliation
(Paul) Barnabas stands firm, but with the vacillating minister of the circumcision
(Peter) Barnabas wavers and falls. Titus a Greek is brought forward as Paul's
great object lesson. There, in the very citadel and shrine of the circumcision
(Jerusalem), Titus, the Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised. Peter on the
other hand, by his withdrawal from the table of the Gentiles, by the re-erection of
the barrier broken down by God in Acts 10: . . . . . compelled these Gentiles to
Judaize . . . . . Paul declares that at this most critical conference, when the whole
subject of his ministry to the Gentiles was discussed `they added nothing' to him,
`only that he should remember the poor'!".