“Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.”
I saw none of the other apostles — only James, the Lord's brother. — this parenthetical detail is crucial: Paul saw only James and Peter, not the whole apostolic college, suggesting that his Jerusalem meeting lacked full apostolic sanction at this stage.
Church Fathers on Galatians 1:18
“Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas.” What can be more lowly than such a soul? After such successes, wanting nothing of Peter, not even his assent, but being of equal dignity with him, (for at present I will say no more,) he comes to him as his elder and superior. And the only object of this journey was to visit Peter; thus he pays due respect to the Apostles, and esteems himself not only not their better but not their equal. Which is plain from…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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