Galatians 2:5

2:5 But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

Galatians 2:14

2:14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”


tn Grk “slaves, nor did we…” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, οὐδέ (oude) was translated as “But…even” and a new sentence started in the translation at the beginning of v. 5.

tn Or “we did not cave in to their demands.”

tn Grk “even for an hour” (an idiom for a very short period of time).

sn In order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. Paul evidently viewed the demands of the so-called “false brothers” as a departure from the truth contained in the gospel he preached. This was a very serious charge (see Gal 1:8).

sn Cephas. This individual is generally identified with the Apostle Peter (L&N 93.211).

tn Here ἀναγκάζεις (anankazei") has been translated as a conative present (see ExSyn 534).