To whom were the gospel for the Gentiles and the gospel for the Jews committed?
Scripture states the gospel of the uncircumcision, meaning the Gentiles, was committed to Paul, while the gospel of the circumcision, meaning the Jews, was committed to Peter. Paul writes that God wrought effectually in Peter toward the circumcision and was mighty in Paul toward the Gentiles.
Les explains that Paul came to Jerusalem to show the twelve the gospel he was now preaching to the Gentiles. By this time, twenty-two years after Pentecost, the prophetic program had begun to fall through the cracks because Israel was rejecting it. Meanwhile, God had raised up Paul as the apostle of the Gentiles; while Israel was going down, the Gentile assembly, or church, was coming up. Paul says these twelve thought they were still in their prophetic program, not realizing it was falling away. Then in verse seven, Paul writes that when they saw the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto him, as the gospel of the circumcision was to Peter, for He that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same God was mighty in Paul toward the Gentiles. Les notes that Peter, James, and John were not going to Gentiles in verse nine.
But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
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To whom was the gospel of the uncircumcision committed, and to whom was the gospel of the circumcision committed?
Paul teaches that the gospel of the uncircumcision (the Gentiles) was committed to him, just as the gospel of the circumcision was committed to Peter.