Verš 1
Next, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, taking with me Barnabas and Titus.
Sk 15:2 - Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas made no small uprising against them, they decided that Paul and Barnabas, and some from the opposing side, should go up to the Apostles and priests in Jerusalem concerning this question.
Verš 2
And I went up according to revelation, and I debated with them about the Gospel that I am preaching among the Gentiles, but away from those who were pretending to be something, lest perhaps I might run, or have run, in vain.
Sk 19:21 - Then, when these things were completed, Paul decided in the Spirit, after crossing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “Then, after I have been there, it is necessary for me to see Rome also.”
Verš 3
But even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Gentile, was not compelled to be circumcised,
Sk 16:3 - Paul wanted this man to travel with him, and taking him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they all knew that his father was a Gentile.
1Kor 9:21 - To those who are under the law, I became as if I were under the law, (though I was not under the law) so that I might gain those who were under the law. To those who were without the law, I became as if I were without the law, (though I was not without the law of God, being in the law of Christ) so that I might gain those who were without the law.
Verš 4
but only because of false brothers, who were brought in unknowingly. They entered secretly to spy on our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might reduce us to servitude.
Sk 15:24 - Since we have heard that some, going out from among us, have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment,
Verš 6
and away from those who were pretending to be something. (Whatever they might have been once, it means nothing to me. God does not accept the reputation of a man.) And those who were claiming to be something had nothing to offer me.
Dt 10:17 - For the Lord your God himself is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a God great and powerful and terrible, who favors no person and accepts no bribe.
2Krn 19:7 - Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence. For there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire for gifts.”
Jób 34:19 - He does not accept the reputation of leaders; nor does he recognize the tyrant as he contends against the poor. For all are the work of his hands.
Sk 10:34 - Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: “I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons.
Rim 2:11 - For there is no favoritism with God.
Ef 6:9 - And you, lords, act similarly toward them, setting aside threats, knowing that the Lord of both you and them is in heaven. For with him there is no favoritism toward anyone.
Kol 3:25 - For whoever causes injury shall be repaid for what he has wrongfully done. And there no favoritism with God.
1Pt 1:17 - And if you invoke as Father him who, without showing favoritism to persons, judges according to each one’s work, then act in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
Verš 8
For he who was working the Apostleship to the circumcised in Peter, was also working in me among the Gentiles.
Sk 9:15 - Then the Lord said to him: “Go, for this one is an instrument chosen by me to convey my name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.
Sk 13:2 - Now as they were ministering for the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them: “Separate Saul and Barnabas for me, for the work for which I have selected them.”
Sk 22:21 - And he said to me, ‘Go forth. For I am sending you to far away nations.’ ”
Gal 1:16 - to reveal his Son within me, so that I might evangelize him among the Gentiles, I did not next seek the consent of flesh and blood.
Ef 3:8 - Although I am the least of all the saints, I have been given this grace: to evangelize among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Verš 10
asking only that we should be mindful of the poor, which was the very thing that I also was solicitous to do.
Sk 11:30 - And so they did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Sk 24:17 - Then, after many years, I went to my nation, bringing alms and offerings and vows,
Rim 15:25 - But next I will set out for Jerusalem, to minister to the saints.
1Kor 16:1 - Now concerning the collections which are made for the saints: just as I have arranged for the churches of Galatia, so should it also be done with you.
2Kor 8:1 - And so we are making known to you, brothers, the grace of God that has been given in the churches of Macedonia.
2Kor 9:1 - Now, concerning the ministry that is done toward the saints, it is not necessary for me to write to you.
Verš 14
But when I had seen that they were not walking correctly, by the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas in front of everyone: “If you, while you are a Jew, are living like the Gentiles and not the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to keep the customs of the Jews?”
Sk 10:28 - And he said to them: “You know how abominable it would be for a Jewish man to be joined with, or to be added to, a foreign people. But God has revealed to me to call no man common or unclean.
Verš 16
And we know that man is not justified by the works of the law, but only by the faith of Jesus Christ. And so we believe in Christ Jesus, in order that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law. For no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Sk 13:38 - Therefore, let it be known to you, noble brothers, that through him is announced to you remission from sins and from everything by which you were not able to be justified in the law of Moses.
Rim 3:28 - For we judge a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
Rim 8:3 - For though this was impossible under the law, because it was weakened by the flesh, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and because of sin, in order to condemn sin in the flesh,
Heb 7:18 - Certainly, there is a setting aside of the former commandment, because of its weakness and lack of usefulness.
Rim 3:20 - For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.
Gal 3:11 - And, since in the law no one is justified with God, this is manifest: “For the just man lives by faith.”
Verš 19
For through the law, I have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God. I have been nailed to the cross with Christ.
Rim 7:4 - And so, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law, through the body of Christ, so that you may be another one who has risen from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Rim 14:7 - For none of us lives for himself, and none of us dies for himself.
2Kor 5:15 - And Christ died for all, so that even those who live might not now live for themselves, but for him who died for them and who rose again.
1Sol 5:10 - who died for us, so that, whether we watch, or whether we sleep, we may live in union with him.
Heb 9:14 - how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit has offered himself, immaculate, to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God?
1Pt 4:2 - so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.
Verš 20
I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.
Gal 1:4 - who gave himself on behalf of our sins, so that he might deliver us from this present wicked age, according to the will of God our Father.
Ef 5:2 - And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
Tít 2:14 - He gave himself for our sake, so that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse for himself an acceptable people, pursuers of good works.
Verš 21
I do not 670 reject the grace of God. For if justice is through the law, then Christ died in vain.
Heb 7:11 - Therefore, if consummation had occurred through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), then what further need would there be for another Priest to rise up according to the order of Melchizedek, one who was not called according to the order of Aaron?
Gal 2,1-9 - Porov. Sk 15. Pavol navštevuje materskú cirkev v Jeruzaleme na základe Božieho vnuknutia. Bolo to roku 49–50, keď sa konal v Jeruzaleme apoštolský snem. Pavol učil, že pohania, ktorí sa obrátili na kresťanstvo, nemusia zachovávať židovské predpisy. Napriek naliehaniu židovčiacich (v. 4) nechce dať obrezať svojho spolupracovníka Títa (v. 3), ktorý bol obrátencom z pohanstva.
Gal 2,10 - Pomoc poskytnutá chudobným v Jeruzaleme zo strany spoločenstiev obrátených z pohanstva bola svedectvom bratského spoločenstva kresťanov (porov. 2 Kor, 8, 1–15).
Gal 2,11-15 - Dátum a okolnosti stretnutia sú neznáme. Peter osobne prijal do Cirkvi prvého pohana bez toho, že by ho bol podrobil židovskému zákonu (Sk 15, 7 n.). V Antiochii sa však oddeľoval od pohanov, keď ta prišli kresťania zo židovstva, aby ich nepodráždil. Takéto počínanie mohlo byť pre Petrovu autoritu nebezpečné. Peter uznal svoju chybu a tým vlastne schválil Pavlovo počínanie. Pavlove výroky nenaštrbujú Petrovo prvenstvo medzi apoštolmi ani jeho apoštolskú neomylnosť. Týkajú sa jeho osobného správania pri tej príležitosti.
Gal 2,16 - Ž 143, 2.
Gal 2,17 - Túto ťažkú vetu možno chápať takto: Keby Zákon ešte platil, Pavol a Židia, čo sa stali kresťanmi, by boli hriešnici, ako sú nimi pohania. To však by znamenalo, že prijať Krista by bol hriech, a to je absurdné.
Gal 2,19 - Tento verš možno vysvetľovať dvojako: že Pavol skrze nový zákon evanjelia (Rim 8, 2) zomrel pre Mojžišov zákon, alebo že v mene Mojžišovho zákona Kristus bol odsúdený na smrť (3, 13), ktorá však znamenala oslobodenie od Zákona a život pre Boha (porov. Rim 7, 4; 6, 6; 8, 3–4).
