42 DEBBIE HUNN that status in a human system is no longer his goal, that is, that he is not in the first category. This, then, constitutes evidence that he is in the second category, that is, that he sought to please God and therefore that he taught the gospel he received from God. He has not, however, finished validating his gospel. He must establish not only that he received the gospel from God but that he did not rewrite the message later. For this he need not relate every evangelistic encounter he had but simply show that when the gospel was threatened, he did not waver on it. Again, it is threats or potential threats from apostles that matter because if he alters his message to gain in prominence, he alters it for them. He recounts two incidents. 2. The Jerusalem Council: Galatians 2,1-10 In 2,1-10 Paul summarizes his dealings with the apostles during a time when false brethren in the church were compelling Gentile converts to be circumcised. Most scholars equate Gal 2,1-10 with the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15 because both the issues and the people are the same, but Paul’s evidence for the truth of his gospel has brought both his account and Luke’s into question. Because epeita “ then ” in 1,18.21 leads to the next step in Paul’s itinerary, ¶ scholars take epeita in 2,1 to mean that Paul relates every ¶ destination of his travels. Furthermore, they argue that with or without epeita in 2,1, Paul must include every visit to Jerusalem in ¶ Galatians 1–2 46. The problem, however, is that if Paul recounts each visit to Jerusalem, then the second trip Paul records in Galatians must be the second trip he made in fact, but Luke records the famine visit of Acts 11,27-30; 12,25 between Paul’s first visit in Acts 9 and the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15. Therefore, a minority of scholars equates Gal 2,1-10 with Acts 11,28-30 ; others believe Luke to be mistaken; and still others believe the error to be on the part of Paul 47. See, e.g., BRUCE, Galatians, 106; DUNN, Galatians, 87; LONGENECKER, 46 Galatians, 36. This idea is almost universal. See LONGENECKER, Galatians, lxxvii-lxxxiii, 47; BRUCE, Galatians, 47 108-109, for the identification of Gal 2,1-10 with Acts 11,27-30. See J. KNOX, Chapters in a Life of Paul (ed. D.R.A. HARE) (Macon, GA 1987) 35-40; LUEDEMANN, Apostle to Gentiles, 21, for the view that Luke was mistaken. See