“Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.”
Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along as well. — the temporal marker establishes an independent timeline of Paul's mission; he went to Jerusalem on his own initiative ('aneba'), not in response to Jerusalem's summons, with companions who embody his inclusive gospel (Titus, an uncircumcised Greek).
Church Fathers on Galatians 2:1
His first journey was owing to his desire to visit Peter, his second, he says, arose from a revelation of the Spirit. “And I laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running or had run in vain.” What is this, O Paul! You who neither at the beginning nor after three years would confer with the Apostles, do you now confer with them, after fourteen years are past, lest you should…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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