decisive opening statement of Romans he says that the gospel is “to the Jew first, and also, equally, to the Greek.”9 It looks as though the agreement Paul reports in Galatians 2 was a temporary arrangement, a way of mollifying the Jerusalem hard-liners, trying to reassure them that Jewish followers of Jesus, at least, would not have to compromise their own purity, would be able to carry on without straining their consciences.
