Galatians 1 Bible study: Not from men

The letter opens, "Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead" (1:1), and goes on, "and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia" (1:2). So it comes from Paul and from "all the brothers who are with me" (1:2), whom it doesn't name. Since it opens with more than one sender, these notes say the letter for its I. The letter's own words tie that I to Paul, here and later in "Behold, I, Paul, tell you" (5:2). Its readers are "the assemblies of Galatia" (1:2), and these notes say nothing of where Galatia was, of when or where the letter was written, or of the assemblies there, beyond what the letter says.

εὐαγγέλιονeuangelionsay yoo-ang-GHEL-ee-on

Strong's: "a good message, i.e. the gospel". "to a different “good news”" (1:6), "the Good News of Christ" (1:7), and "the Good News which was preached by me" (1:11): behind each is this noun. In 1:7 the Greek has it once, behind the Good News of Christ; the words before, "but there isn’t another “good news.”" (1:7), don't repeat it. Galatians has the noun seven times, three in this chapter and four in chapter 2 (in all eight editions TAGNT compares); the next is "I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles" (2:2). Favor's Mark 1 studies it where Mark's Gospel begins, and Favor's introduction to Galatians follows Good News through the letter in The Good News, and a different one.