After fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.  I went up in accord with a revelation, and I presented to them the gospel that I preach to the Gentiles – but privately to those of repute – so that I might not be running, or have run, in vain.  Moreover, not even Titus, who was with me, although he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

From those who were reputed to be important (what they once were makes no difference to me: God shows no partiality) – those of repute make me add nothing.  On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter to the circumcised, for the one who worked in Peter for an apostolate to the circumcised worked also in me for the Gentiles, and when they recognized the grace bestowed upon me, James and Kephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas their right hands in partnership, that we should go the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.  Only, we were to be mindful of the poor, which is the very thing I was eager to do.