2:3
Titus was a Greek, so if the apostles believed that circumcision was essential they would have insisted that he was circumcised, but this did not happen. The argument that circumcision was necessary did not come from the apostles.
2:4
See how Paul refers to the Judaisers, there is no using nice language. Rather he calls them what they were. They were “false brothers”, they pretended to be Christians, might even have thought they were Christians, but there were not. They were not there to build up the church, but to spy on the freedom that the Christians had, and so to bring them back into slavery. One might wonder why on earth would they want to bring people back into slavery, but we see the same phenomenon happening today in various ways. Muslims who convert to Christ will often face a very hard time, even risking murder in some countries. Gays who give up their gay lifestyle, or those who detransition from transgender can face an enormous backlash.
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