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Galatians 2:13

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And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

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Antioch, likely Syrian Antioch, was the major Gentile-Christian church where Peter’s withdrawal from Gentile believers caused Barnabas and other Jewish Christians to follow his hypocrisy. Jerusalem was the center of the early Jewish-Christian church, associated with men whose arrival intensified pressure to observe Jewish boundary customs.

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Galatians 2:13 mentions Antioch and Jerusalem.

Antioch · Volkan Hatem
Jerusalem · Godot13

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