Gálatas 2:10

10 Solamente nos pidieron que nos acordáramos de los pobres; lo mismo que fui también solícito en hacer

Gálatas 2:10 Meaning and Commentary

Galatians 2:10

Only they would that we should remember the poor
Not in a spiritual sense, as some have thought, though these the apostle was greatly mindful of; but properly and literally the poor as to the things of this world; and may design the poor in general, everywhere, in the several churches where they should be called to minister, and particularly the poor saints at Jerusalem; who were become such, either through the frequent calamities of the nation, and a dearth or scarcity of provisions among them, and which affected the whole country; or rather through the persecutions of their countrymen, who plundered them of their goods for professing the name of Christ; or it may be through their having given up all their substance into one common stock and fund, as they did at first, and which was now exhausted, and that in a great measure by assisting out of it the preachers who first spread the Gospel among the Gentiles; so that it was but just that they should make some return unto them, and especially for the spiritual favours they received from them, as the Gospel, and the ministers of it, which first went out of Jerusalem: the "remembering" of them not only intends giving them actual assistance according to their abilities, which was very small, but mentioning their case to the several Gentile churches, and stirring them up to a liberal contribution:

the same which I also was forward to do;
as abundantly appears from his epistles to the churches, and especially from his two epistles to the Corinthians. Now since the apostles at Jerusalem desired nothing else but this, and said not a word concerning the observance of the rites and ceremonies of the law, and neither found fault with, nor added to the Gospel the apostle communicated to them, it was a clear case that there was an entire agreement between them, in principle and practice, and that he did not receive his Gospel from them.

Gálatas 2:10 In-Context

8 (porque el que obró en Pedro para el apostolado de la circuncisión, obró también en mí para con los gentiles)

9 y como vieron la gracia que me era dada, Jacobo, Cefas y Juan, que parecían ser las columnas, nos dieron la diestra de compañía a mí y a Bernabé, para que nosotros fuéramos a los gentiles, y ellos a la circuncisión

10 Solamente nos pidieron que nos acordáramos de los pobres; lo mismo que fui también solícito en hacer

11 Pero viniendo Pedro a Antioquía, le resistí en la cara, porque era de condenar

12 Porque antes que vinieran unos de parte de Jacobo, comía con los gentiles; mas después que vinieron, se retraía y apartaba, teniendo miedo de los que eran de la circuncisión