What is the Acts 15 interlude a parallel of?
The Acts 15 interlude is a parallel of Galatians chapter 2. It serves as a brief exception within the account that otherwise follows Paul and his ministry to the Gentiles, occurring around 51 A.D. before Peter permanently fades from the narrative.
Les teaches that the Acts 15 interlude is a parallel of Galatians chapter 2. He explains that this brief section is the only exception to the otherwise consistent focus on Paul from Acts 13 onward. After this interlude, Peter is never mentioned again in the narrative. The context notes that the first eight chapters centered on Peter, with nothing of Saul of Tarsus, but after Saul's conversion in chapter 9, there is back and forth until chapter 13, when Peter fades off the scene. The Acts 15 interlude, dated around 51 A.D., is the one little instance where Peter reappears. Everything else concerns Paul and his ministry to the Gentiles, where he first goes to the synagogue of the Jew, following Romans 1:16, to the Jew first and then to the Greek.