3 The Recognition of Paul’s Gospel Galatians 2:1–10 In the first fourteen years of his Christian life Paul had only one brief encounter with Peter and James and none with the entire apostolic band. Although the Judaizers charged that he was indebted to others for his apostolic ministry, there was no objective, historical evidence for that accusation. Near the end of this period of comparative obscurity Barnabas brought Paul from Tarsus in Cilicia to work in the church at Antioch in Syria (Acts 9:30;