2 It was fourteen years later that I made the uphill trek to Yerushalem[ref] with Barnabas and 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 proclaiming 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 is a Greek. 4 However some false brothers were sneaked in to monitor the freedoms that we have in the messiah, Yeshua, and wanting us to be enslaved to their traditions. 5 But we didn’t even submit to them for one hour, so that the truth of the good message could continue amongst you.

6 [ref]And those people who were supposed leaders (although what they were didn’t mean much to me because God doesn’t go by appearances) 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 Peter was entrusted to take it to the Jews 8 because the same God who worked in Peter to commission him to the Jews also worked in me to commission me towards the non-Jews. 9 So seeing the grace that God had shown towards me, Yacob and Peter and Yohan, 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 Jews. 10 Also they said that we need to keep helping the poor, but I was eager to do that anyway.