38 DEBBIE HUNN [Peter’s and Paul’s] two apostolic missions” 38. However, the details Paul includes — the three year gap, the brevity of the visit, and the encounter with James — are irrelevant to concord between Peter and Paul. Aletti, on the other hand, notes that Paul would have to bring up his stay with Peter to counter the idea that he had been catechized by the Jerusalem apostles. He finds Paul to emphasize features that minimize the importance of the trip 39. Fifteen days in Peter’s house, however, allows time for extensive deliberation on the gospel. Furthermore, the incident is important: Paul’s brief association with the Jerusalem apostles — of whom he met only two — is evidence that he did not ingratiate himself with them or seek to rise through their ranks. In 1,21 Paul continues a tight account of his movements. Here epeita “ then ” in 1,21 introduces Paul’s next move because he ¶ emphasizes leaving Jerusalem for Gentile lands. As Paul’s journey to Arabia and Damascus in 1,17b says first of all that he was not in Jerusalem (1,17a), so his departure to Cilicia and Syria in 1,21 says that he left Jewish territory when he left Jerusalem. His explicit statement in vv. 22-23 that the Judean Christians knew him by reputation but not by face again points up his lack of time in Judea 40. Citing witnesses that he evangelized among the Gentiles while hardly contacting Jerusalem completes his proof that he did not advance himself among the apostles, at least up to this point 41. Paul thus shows that he disregarded status in human circles but strove instead to glorify God (v. 24). Verses 13-24 therefore establish v. 10 that Paul no longer seeks to please people but God, and v. 10 gives the grounds for vv. 11-12 that his gospel is from God. Unlike the other theories of how Paul substantiates his gospel, this J. PETERSON, “The Extent of Christian Theological Diversity: Pauline 38 Evidence ”, Restoration Quarterly 47 (2005) 7. ALETTI, “Galates 1–2”, 314-315. 39 Since Luke records that Paul had persecuted Jewish Christians 40 (Acts 8,1-4), how could the Judeans not know his face? Paul’s point is that they had not seen him as a preacher of the gospel. Now when Paul visited Jerusalem the first time after his conversion, Luke records that he did preach (Acts 9,26- 28) ; but fifteen days (Gal 1,18) of preaching would allow only a small number of Christians in Judea to see him. For other viewpoints, see DUNN, Galatians, 81; LONGENECKER, Galatians, 41. That Judaizers visited Paul’s churches in Acts 15,1 implies also that the 41 Jewish Christians knew Paul’s gospel was law free.