Galatians 2:1

fourteen years after This is not to be reckoned from the time of the first visit, mentioned ch. Galatians 1:18, but from the date of St Paul's conversion; and this visit may therefore be assigned to a.d. 51. It was on the occasion described in Acts 15.

St Paul had gone to Jerusalem once during the interval, to carry relief to the poor brethren who were suffering from the famine, Acts 11:30; Acts 12:25. But he does not here refer to thatvisit, because its object and attendant circumstances are foreign to the purpose of his present argument, and because he had probably no opportunity then of conferring with the Apostles. The visit was purely one of benevolence, and may have been brief in duration. Calvin, however, and others identify the visit of this verse with that of Acts 11:30. Twice after this, St Paul revisited the Holy City in a.d. 54, of which visit a cursory mention is made Acts 18:21-22, and finally in a.d. 58 (Acts 21:17).

with Barnabas This name, which signifies -the Son of Exhortation", was given by the Apostles to an early convert, whose original name was Joseph or Joses. He was a Levite of Cyprus, and was associated with Paul in the commencement of his missionary work among the Gentiles. He accompanied him on this occasion, as well as on the previous visit to Jerusalem, recorded in Acts 11:30. Like St Paul, though not of the number of the Twelve, he was included in "the glorious company of the Apostles" [26] (see Lightfoot, p. 93).

[26] His festival is retained in the Calendar of the English Church, with special Collect, Epistle and Gospel. In the Collect he is termed -thy holy Apostle Barnabas". Under June 11, to the bare name Barnabas in the Calendar was prefixed in 1663 -S.", and added, -Apost. and M."

At the conclusion of this visit, owing to a dispute with St Paul, Barnabas separated from him, and is not again mentioned in St Luke's narrative.

Titus also He was one among the -certain others" appointed by the Church in Antioch to go up to Jerusalem with Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:2). He is specially mentioned because of the incident narrated in Galatians 2:2 foll.