11 However, when Peter came to Antioch I did have to confront him directly, because he was clearly wrong in what he did. 12 Before some of James' friends arrived, Peter used to eat with the foreigners. But when these people came he stopped doing this and stayed away from the foreigners. He was afraid of being criticized by those who insisted that men had to be circumcised. 13 As well as Peter, other Jewish Christians became hypocritical too, to the extent that even Barnabas was persuaded to follow their hypocrisy.
14 When I realized that they weren’t taking a firm stand for the truth of the good news, I said to Peter in front of everyone, "If you’re a Jew yet live like the foreigners and not like Jews, why are you forcing the foreigners to live like Jews?