About how many years after Pentecost did Paul and Barnabas go back to Jerusalem in Galatians?
Paul and Barnabas went back to Jerusalem about twenty-two years after Pentecost, as Galatians indicates. They were called back to Jerusalem because they had gone to Gentiles with the gospel, which some thought was only for Jews. Paul says he went up by revelation with Barnabas and Titus.
Les explains that Galatians was written about twenty-two years after Pentecost, and at that time Paul and Barnabas were called back to Jerusalem on the carpet for taking the gospel to Gentiles. Paul states in Galatians 2:1 that it was fourteen years after the events of chapter one that he went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas and Titus. He went up by revelation, meaning God revealed to him the necessity to go. There he met the leadership of Judaism and the believing Jews, the Jerusalem assembly, and communicated the gospel he preached among the Gentiles, because the prophetic program had been interrupted.