But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.