First Reading
Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
2:1Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
2And I went up according to revelation; and communicated to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles, but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run, or had run in vain.
7But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.
8(For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought in me also among the Gentiles.)
9And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship: that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision:
10Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also I was careful to do.
11But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision.
13And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented, so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.
14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If you, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as the Jews do, how do you compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?