⁷ In fact, they saw that I had been entrusted with telling the Good News to people who are not circumcised as Peter had been entrusted to tell it to those who are circumcised. ⁸ The one who made Peter an apostle to Jewish people also made me an apostle to people who are not Jewish. ⁹ James, Cephas, and John (who were recognized as the most important people) acknowledged that God had given me this special gift.^[a] So they shook hands with Barnabas and me, agreeing to be our partners. It was understood that we would work among the people who are not Jewish and they would work among Jewish people.