Galatians 1:19

1:19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.

Galatians 2:14

2:14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”


tn Grk “But another of the apostles I did not see, except…” with “another” in emphatic position in the Greek text. Paul is determined to make the point that his contacts with the original twelve apostles and other leaders of the Jerusalem church were limited, thus asserting his independence from them.

sn Cephas. This individual is generally identified with the Apostle Peter (L&N 93.211).

tn Here ἀναγκάζεις (anankazei") has been translated as a conative present (see ExSyn 534).