2 It was fourteen years later that I made the uphill trek to Yerushalem[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 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’s a Greek. 4 However, some false brothers were sneaked in to monitor the freedoms that we have in the messiah, Yeshua, 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 [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 assign him to the Jews also worked in me to assign me to 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.