Companions on the journey

After Galatians 2:1-10 

After fourteen years,

two accompany him,

him the apostle called,

two who carried

their own reputations,

their own callings,

one a Jew, one a Gentile.

To meet with elders

accompanied by a Jew

never was, would be

an issue. It was

the gentile, both

a demonstration

of the word spreading

beyond its original

confines and a symbol

of the apostle’s calling

and ministry to come.

Some grumble and mutter:

surely circumcision, even

of a Gentile, demonstrates

faithfulness to tradition

and commands, a sign

of separation and

selection, being chosen

and set apart. But 

the grumbling is stopped,

the muttering subsides,

the ministry is approved

and blessed.

 

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