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Galatians 2:12 KJV
Galatians · chapter 2 · verse 12
For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.Galatians 2:12 · King James Version
Galatians 2:12 in context
10Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
11But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- separatedaphorizōto mark off from others by boundaries, to limit, to separate, in a bad sense to exclude…G873 →
- Gentilesethnosa multitude associated or living together, a company, troop, swarm, a multitude of…G1484 →
- withdrewhypostellōto draw back, let down, lower, to withdraw of a timid person, to withdraw one s selfG5288 →
- certaintisa certain, a certain one, some, some time, a whileG5100 →
- himselfheautouhimself, herself, itself, themselvesG1438 →
- fearingphobeōto put to flight by terrifying , to put to flight, to flee, to fear, be afraid, to be…G5399 →
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I. From the account which Paul gives of what passed between him and the other apostles at Jerusalem, the Galatians might easily discern both the falseness of what his enemies had insinuated against him and their own folly and weakness in departing from that gospel which he had preached to them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-21