0- 25). That was the unanimous judgment in Jerusalem on the moment that Paul had arrived there, and was captured a little later.
Already from the beginning, Paul’s ministry had no distinction between believers from the nations and believers from ‘circumcision’. Indeed, Paul himself walked according to the Jewish practices (Acts 21: 26; 28: 17), but he taught that also Jews were free in it. That education was the great annoyance in Jerusalem about Paul (Acts 21: 21). Paul’s education is characterized by grace. As he writes in Ephesians 2:
8 For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God’s approach present, 9 not of works, lest anyone should be boasting.
Not the law, but grace prevails in the education of the apostle Paul (Romans 6: 14). And so we returned to the original question. “The administration of the grace of God” was entrusted to Paul. Therefore, this administration couldn’t start earlier than when he came along.