And when they knew (perceived, recognized, understood and acknowledged) the grace (God's unmerited favor and spiritual blessing) that had been bestowed upon me, James and Cephas (Peter) and John, who were reputed to be pillars of the Jerusalem church, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, with the understanding that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised (Jews).
They only [made one stipulation], that we were to remember the poor, which very thing I was also eager to do. (Read: Galatians 2:1-10).
10 Paul had already shown a concern for the poor at the time of the famine visit when he traveled to Jerusalem with Barnabas as a representative of the church at Antioch (Acts 11:27-30). At the time of the council he was reminded of this good work and encouraged to pursue it. Out of this request, with which he was in great sympathy, arose the collection from among the Gentile churches that occupied so large a part in Paul's later thought and writings (cf. Acts 24:17; Rom 15:26; 1 Cor 16:1-4; 2 Cor 8-9).
[NIV BIBLE COMMENTARY Volume 2: New Testament].
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They only [made one stipulation], that we were to remember the poor, which very thing I was also eager to do. (Read: Galatians 2:1-10).
10 Paul had already shown a concern for the poor at the time of the famine visit when he traveled to Jerusalem with Barnabas as a representative of the church at Antioch (Acts 11:27-30). At the time of the council he was reminded of this good work and encouraged to pursue it. Out of this request, with which he was in great sympathy, arose the collection from among the Gentile churches that occupied so large a part in Paul's later thought and writings (cf. Acts 24:17; Rom 15:26; 1 Cor 16:1-4; 2 Cor 8-9).
[NIV BIBLE COMMENTARY Volume 2: New Testament].
[http://twitter.com/SowersOfTheWord].
JESUS IS LORD.
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