Comparison Of Acts 15 And Gal

There is some evidence to suggest that the pericope in Acts 15 and Gal.2:1-10 refers to the same event. A possible explanation for this might be that the two biblical texts exposed the arguments about the conditional rules for non-Jewish Christian converts, particularly for the Gentiles. The findings from Luke’s text was exhaustive on the issues on circumcision of the Gentles. One question that needs to be asked, however, is whether these apostles heeded properly what Jesus Christ instructed them? It seems that Peter’s understanding of the Gospel’s framework for example is questionable. Why would Peter an eyewitness of Jesus Christ act in the same manner like the Pharisees? In the Gospel of Matthew chapter twelve (Mt.12) Jesus challenged the

In the trial, the story was painted differently by Luke and Paul, arguably because, Paul in (Gal.2:1-10) related the venue of the meeting - Jerusalem, possibly because Paul was in attendance for the dialogue; whereas that did not reflect in Luke’s storyline. Luke arguably narrated the story from the spectacle of the report he heard or read from the apostles later. However, his report is striking because his story was exhaustive apart from the fact that he did not mention the venue unlike Paul. Another striking difference in the two pericopes is that in Gal. 2:2 Paul noted that he consulted with the leaders of the apostles perhaps, Peter and James and John who gave to him and Barnabas ‘the right hand of fellowship’, (Gal.2:9) whereas in Acts 15, Luke reported it as a public meeting of some leading apostles. Subsequently, there is a striking difference in the conclusions of both texts. In Acts 15 Luke narrated lists of the prohibited binding laws for the Gentles, while Paul concluded with these words, ‘and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised’. (Gal. 2: