Galatians 2:10

The ‘poor people’ refers to the poor Christians who lived in Jerusalem. Most of these people were probably *Jewish Christians. So Paul collected money from the *Gentile Christians that he visited. Then he took the money when he went to Jerusalem (see Acts 11:28-30 and 2 Corinthians chapter 8). Leviticus 19:10 and Deuteronomy 15:11 show that God cares about poor people. He expects richer people to be generous to poor people. And Paul thought that richer *Gentile Christians should be generous to poorer *Jewish Christians (Romans 15:25-27). That would help unite them too.

Acts 15:1-35 describes another meeting in which the leaders of the Jerusalem *church made important decisions about *Gentile Christians. Some people think that Acts chapter 15 may describe the same meeting as Galatians chapter 2.

Paul opposed Peter in Antioch

v11 When Peter came to the city called Antioch, I opposed him in public. What he did was wrong. v12 Some men came to Antioch from James’s *church. Before they arrived, Peter used to eat with the *Gentile Christians. But Peter was afraid of these men, because they were *Jewish. He did not continue to eat with the *Gentile Christians. v13 The other *Jewish Christians started to behave like cowards too, as Peter did. Even Barnabas copied their behaviour. v14 I saw that they were not behaving in the right way. They were not obeying the real message of the *good news. So I spoke to Peter in front of all the other Christians. I said, ‘You are a *Jew. But you follow the customs of the *Gentiles. You have not been following the customs of the *Jews. You certainly should not insist that *Gentile Christians must live as *Jews.’

The second part of this chapter is completely different from the first part.