Paul and the Council of Jerusalem

At the Council of Jerusalem,
church leaders agreed that gentiles need not be circumcised in order to become Christians. Some time
after this Peter visited Antioch. Although he had supported Paul's opinion at
the Jerusalem Council, Peter refrained from eating with the uncircumcised
Christians. Paul confronted Peter and accused him of hypocrisy. We might be
shocked to read about this blowup between Peter and Paul, the two great pillars
of the church. Luke does not record the episode in Acts. Paul brings it up in
his letter to the Galatians in order to bolster his insistence that the Galatian
Christians should resist any effort by outsiders to impose upon them Jewish
ways. Whatever the nature of their meeting, Peter and Paul did agree on an
essential truth: Salvation comes through faith in Jesus
Christ.