For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Galatians 2:12 in context
Galatians 2:9–15
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and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
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They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
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But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
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For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
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And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
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But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
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“We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,
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