charge of the churches by Paul. Titus was a former Gentile.


VERSE 2. And I went up by revelation.

If God had not ordered Paul to Jerusalem, Paul would never have gone there.


VERSE 2. And communicated unto them that gospel.

After an absence of fourteen years, respectively eighteen years, Paul returned
to Jerusalem to confer with the other apostles.


VERSE 2. Which I preach among the Gentiles.

Among the Jews Paul allowed Law and circumcision to stand for the time being.
So did all the apostles. Nevertheless Paul held fast to the liberty of the
Gospel. On one occasion he said to the Jews: "Through this man (Christ) is
preached unto you forgiveness of sins; and by him all that believe are
justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of
Moses." (Acts 13:39.) Always remembering the weak, Paul did not insist that
they break at once with the Law.

Paul admits that he conferred with the apostles concerning his Gospel. But he
denies that the conference benefited or taught him anything. The fact is he
resisted those who wanted to force the practice of the Law upon the Gentiles.
They did not overcome him, he overcame them. "Your false apostles lie, when
they say that I circumcised Timothy, shaved my head in Cenchrea, and went up
to Jerusalem, at the request of the apostles. I went to Jerusalem at the