The act of eating together or sharing a table of food with others does not merely function as consuming vital nutrients for physical strength and growth. More importantly, it plays a central role in human life to serve as an expression of individual and communal bonding and identity.
Galatians 2:11–14 The act of eating together or sharing a table of food with others does not merely function as consuming vital nutrients for physical strength and growth. More importantly, it plays a central role in human life to serve as an expression of individual and communal bonding and identity. Furthermore, the willingness or refusal to share a table with others serves to mark a distinctive communal boundary (Mark 2:13–17; Acts 10:9–48). In Galatians 2:11–14, Paul recounts a narrative that highlights the conflict over the table-fellowship between Jewish and Gentile believers at Antioch. The narrative speaks of Peter's willingness, at first, to socially interact with the Gentiles at the meal-table. However, with the arrival of "certain people from James," he withdraws and separates himself from the Gentile believers, leading his fellow Jews to do the same.
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