Note 18 at Gal. 2:10: This agreement that Paul and Barnabas should continue work among the Gentiles, while Peter, James, and John concentrated upon the Jews ended with a final request and agreement that Paul should remember the poor. In the Greek, the tense of the verb carries the idea "that we should keep on remembering the poor" (Wuest's Word Studies, p. 68). The Today's English Version implies that the "poor" being spoken of here were the needy saints of Jerusalem and Judea. "All they asked was that we should remember the needy in their group, which is the very thing I have been eager to do." Paul had already done this on a previous occasion (Acts 11:27-30) and continued to do so in his future missionary journeys (1 Cor. 16:1-3; Rom. 15:26-27; see note 6 at 1 Cor. 11:22, p. 922).