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Galatians 2:1
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Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
Fourteen years later, I rode back to Jerusalem with Barnabas and Titus.
Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.
Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with [me];
Then after 14 years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Later still, after an interval of fourteen years, I again went up to Jerusalem in company with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Then fourteene yeeres after, I went vp againe to Ierusalem with Barnabas, and tooke Titus with me also.
Then through fourteen years, I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, also taking Titus with me .
Then after fourtene yeares, I wente vp agayne to Ierusale with Barnabas, and toke Titus with me also.
Fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me:
Fourteen years after that first visit, Barnabas and I went up to Jerusalem and took Titus with us. I went to clarify with them what had been revealed to me. At that time I placed before them exactly what I was preaching to the non-Jews. I did this in private with the leaders, those held in esteem by the church, so that our concern would not become a controversial public issue, marred by ethnic tensions, exposing my years of work to denigration and endangering my present ministry. Significantly, Titus, non-Jewish though he was, was not required to be circumcised. While we were in conference we were infiltrated by spies pretending to be Christians, who slipped in to find out just how free true Christians are. Their ulterior motive was to reduce us to their brand of servitude. We didn't give them the time of day. We were determined to preserve the truth of the Message for you.
Then after a period of fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem, [this time] with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
Then .xiiii. yeares after that I wet vp agayne to Ierusalem with Barnabas and toke with me Titus also.
Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Then fourteen years after I went again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also.
Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;
After fourteen years I went to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas. I also took Titus with me.
Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.
Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.
Fourteen years later I went to Jerusalem with Barnabas. I also took along Titus.
Then after fourteen years I again went up to Yerushalayim, this time with Bar-Nabba; and I took with me Titus.
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
Then fourteene yeeres after, I went vp againe to Hierusalem with Barnabas, & tooke with me Titus also.
THEN, fourteen years later, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Yerushalayim with Bar-Nabba, taking Titus also with me.
Then fourteen years later I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.Acts 15:2;">[xr]
Again, from fourteen years I went up to Urishlem with Bar Naba, and took with me Titos.
And again, after fourteen years, I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas; and I took with me Titus.
Then fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas; and Titus came along, too.
Fourteen years later I went again to Jerusalem. This time I took Barnabas. Titus went with us also.
Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
After that, fourteen years later, I, again, went up unto Jerusalem, with Barnabas, taking with me Titus also;
Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking along Titus also.
Then fourteene yeres after, I went vp agayne to Hierusalem with Barnabas, and toke Titus with me.
After 14 years I went back to Jerusalem with Barnabas and took Titus with me.
Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
Fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
And sith fourtene yeer aftir, eftsones Y wente vp to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took with me Tite.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fourteen: Galatians 1:18
I went: Acts 15:2-4
Barnabas: Galatians 2:13, Acts 4:36, Acts 4:37, Acts 11:25, Acts 11:30, Acts 12:25, Acts 13:2, Acts 13:50, Acts 14:12, Acts 15:25, Acts 15:36-39, 1 Corinthians 9:6, Colossians 4:10
Titus: Galatians 2:3, 2 Corinthians 8:16, 2 Corinthians 8:23, Titus 1:4
Reciprocal: Acts 15:1 - ye Acts 19:21 - these 2 Corinthians 2:13 - Titus Galatians 1:16 - immediately 2 Timothy 4:10 - Titus
Cross-References
Genesis 2:4-9; Job 38:4-11; John 1:1-5">[xr] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
This is the history [fn] of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed."'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem,.... That is, either after it pleased God to call him by his grace, and reveal his Son in him; or rather after he had been at Jerusalem to see Peter, with whom he stayed fifteen days, and then went into Syria and Cilicia; so that it was seventeen years after his conversion that he took this journey to Jerusalem he here speaks of; and he seems to refer to the time when he and Barnabas went from the church at Antioch to the apostles and elders about the question, whether circumcision was necessary to salvation, Acts 15:1 which entirely agrees with the account the apostle here gives of this journey, and which he went not alone, but
with Barnabas: and took Titus with me also; Barnabas is mentioned in Luke's account as going with him at this time, but Titus is not; who, though he was not sent by the church, yet the apostle might judge it proper and prudent to take him with him, who was converted by him, was a minister of the Gospel, and continued uncircumcised; and the rather he might choose to have him along with him, partly that he might be confirmed in the faith the apostle had taught him; and partly that he might be a living testimony of the agreement between the apostle's principles and practice; and that having him and Barnabas, he might have a competent number of witnesses to testify to the doctrines he preached, the miracles he wrought, and the success that attended him among the Gentiles; and to relate, upon their return, what passed between him and the elders at Jerusalem; for by the mouth of two or three witnesses everything is established.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then fourteen years after - That is, 14 years after his first visit there subsequent to his conversion. Some commentators, however, suppose that the date of the fourteen years is to be reckoned from his conversion. But the more obvious construction is, to refer it to the time of his visit there, as recorded in the previous chapter; Galatians 2:18. This time was spent in Asia Minor chiefly in preaching the gospel.
I went up again to Jerusalem - It is commonly supposed that Paul here refers to the visit which he made as recorded in Acts 15:0. The circumstances mentioned are substantially the same; and the object which he had at that time in going up was one whose mention was entirely pertinent to the argument here. He went up with Barnabas to submit a question to the assembled apostles and elders at Jerusalem, in regard to the necessity of the observance of the laws of Moses. Some persons who had come among the Gentile converts from Judea had insisted on the necessity of being circumcised in order to be saved. Paul and Barnabas had opposed them; and the dispute had become so warm that it was agreed to submit the subject to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. For that purpose Paul and Barnabas had been sent, with certain others, to lay the case before all the apostles. As the question which Paul was discussing in this Epistle was about the necessity of the observance of the laws of Moses in order to justification, it was exactly in point to refer to a journey when this very question had been submitted to the apostles. Paul indeed had made another journey to Jerusalem before this with the collection for the poor saints in Judea Acts 11:29-30; Acts 12:25, but he does not mention that here, probably because he did not then see the other apostles, or more probably because that journey furnished no illustration of the point now under debate. On the occasion here referred to Acts 15:0, the very point under discussion here constituted the main subject of inquiry, and it was definitely settled.
And took Titus with me also - Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles Acts 15:2, says, that there were others with Paul and Barnabas on that journey to Jerusalem, but who they were he does not mention. It is by no means certain that Titus was appointed by the church to go to Jerusalem; but the contrary is more probable. Paul seems to have taken him with him as a private affair; but the reason is not mentioned. It may have been to show his Christian liberty, and his sense of what he had a right to do; or it may have been to furnish a case on the subject of inquiry, and submit the matter to them whether Titus was to be circumcised. He was a Greek; but he had been converted to Christianity. Paul had not circumcised him; but had admitted him to the full privileges of the Christian church. Here then was a case in point; and it may have been important to have had such a case before them, so that they might fully understand it. This, as Doddridge properly remarks, is the first mention which occurs of Titus. He is not mentioned by Luke in the Acts of the Apostles, and though his name occurs several times in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 7:6; 2 Corinthians 8:6, 2 Corinthians 8:16, 2 Corinthians 8:23; 2 Corinthians 12:18, yet it is to be remembered that that Epistle was written a considerable time after this to the Galatians. Titus was a Greek, and was doubtless converted by the labors of Paul, because he calls him his own “son,” Titus 1:4. He attended Paul frequently in his travels; was employed by him in important services (see 2 Corinthians in the places referred to above); was left by him in Crete to set in order the things that were missing, and to ordain elders there Titus 1:5; subsequently, he went into Dalmatia 2 Timothy 4:10, and is supposed to have returned again to Crete, where it is said he propagated the gospel in the neighboring islands, and died at the age of 94 - Calmet.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER II.
The apostle mentions his journey to Jerusalem with Barnabas and
Titus, 1.
Shows that he went thither by revelation; and what he did while
there, and the persons with whom he had intercourse, 2-8.
How the apostles gave him the right hand of fellowship, 9, 10.
Here he opposes Peter at Antioch, and the reason why, 11-14.
Shows that the Jews as well as the Gentiles must be justified by
faith, 15, 16.
They who seek this justification should act with consistency,
17, 18.
Gives his own religious experience, and shows, that through the
law he was dead to the law, and crucified with Christ, 19, 20.
Justification is not of the law, but by the faith of Christ, 21.
NOTES ON CHAP. II.
Verse Galatians 2:1. Then fourteen years after — There is a considerable difference among critics concerning the time specified in this verse; the apostle is however generally supposed to refer to the journey he took to Jerusalem, about the question of circumcision, mentioned in Acts 15:4-5, c. These years, says Dr. Whitby, must be reckoned from the time of his conversion, mentioned here Galatians 1:18, which took place A.D. 35 (33) his journey to Peter was A.D. 38 (36,) and then between that and the council of Jerusalem, assembled A.D. 49 (52,) will be fourteen intervening years. The dates in brackets are according to the chronology which I follow in the Acts of the Apostles. Dr. Whitby has some objections against this chronology, which may be seen in his notes.
Others contend that the journey of which the apostle speaks is that mentioned Acts 11:27, c., when Barnabas and Saul were sent by the Church of Antioch with relief to the poor Christians in Judea there being at that time a great dearth in that land. St. Luke's not mentioning Titus in that journey is no valid objection against it: for he does not mention him in any part of his history, this being the first place in which his name occurs. And it does seem as if St. Paul did intend purposely to supply that defect, by his saying, I went up with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. The former St. Luke relates, Acts 11:30; the latter St. Paul supplies.
