Graphic Bible · Scene 3 of 5
Galatians 2:11-14
The table at Antioch
Freedom and the Shared Table · Galatians 2
Story guide: Disclosed historical reconstruction. At Antioch Cephas drew back from Gentile meals, others followed, and Paul opposed him; expressions and table placement are illustrative, with no invented dialogue.
Open this scene in the reader →11But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision.
13And the rest of the Jews also joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
14But when I saw that they were not walking in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how do you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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