Paul Rebukes Peter at Antioch (GAL 2:11-14)

[2:11] But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him in public, because he was clearly wrong.

[2:12] Before some men who had been sent by James arrived there, Peter had been eating with the Gentile believers. But after these men arrived, he drew back and would not eat with the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who were in favor of circumcising them.

[2:13] The other Jewish believers also started acting like cowards along with Peter; and even Barnabas was swept along by their cowardly action.

[2:14] When I saw that they were not walking a straight path in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you have been living like a Gentile, not like a Jew. How, then, can you try to force Gentiles to live like Jews?”

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