11:1–3 The final scene in this story of Gentile conversion is played out in Jerusalem, with Peter having to defend what he had done. Apart from the fundamental question of whether Gentiles should be included or not, there were practical issues. How could Jewish Christians who regarded themselves as still bound by the law have fellowship with those who did not? Surely any Gentile who became a believer must also submit to the law? These are the sorts of questions that must have been thrown up to Peter by the circumcised believers (v. 2), literally, “those of the circumcision,” meaning simply Jewish Christians. Strictly speaking, of course, the whole church at this time could be described in this way, since there were no Christians who were not also Jews. But Luke’s narrative was compiled at…