Publication of Epistle to the Galatians

The Epistle to the Galatians is a letter in the New Testament attributed to the apostle Paul, addressed to the Christian communities in Galatia, in central Asia Minor. Paul wrote in response to teachers who insisted that gentile converts must follow Jewish law, including circumcision. He argued that people are made right with God through faith in Christ rather than by observing the law, and he described his own calling and his meeting with the church leaders in Jerusalem. The letter includes the statement that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek. It is one of Paul's earliest surviving letters, and scholars debate its exact date, with the late 40s and the 50s both proposed. It strongly influenced Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation.

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