2 It was fourteen years later that I made the uphill trek to Yerushalem (Jerusalem)[ref] with Barnabas, taking Titos along as well. 2 God had told me to go there, and I explained to the leaders there the good message that I’d been declaring to the non-Jews. I did it privately, to double-check that I wasn’t somehow just acting vainly. 3 But not even Titos, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he’s a Greek. 4 However, some false brothers were sneaked in to monitor the freedoms that we have in the messiah, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus), and they wanted us to be enslaved to their traditions. 5 But we didn’t submit to them even for one hour, so that the truth of the good message could continue amongst you.

6 And those people who were supposed leaders (although what they were didn’t mean much to me, because God doesn’t go by appearances)[ref] didn’t really contribute anything useful, as far as I could tell. 7 Instead, they saw that I’ve been entrusted with taking the good message to the non-Jews, just like Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros) was entrusted to take it to the Yehudim (Jews), 8 because the same God who worked in Kefa to assign him to the Yehudim also worked in me to assign me to the non-Jews. 9 So, seeing the grace that God had shown towards me, Ya’akov (James; Grk. Yakobos) and Kefa and Yohan (John; Grk. Yoannes), the apparent pillars of the assemblies, accepted me and Barnabas as equals, so that we could go to the non-Jews and them to the Yehudim. 10 Also, they said that we need to keep helping the poor, but I was eager to do that anyway.