Let's go over this scene for a moment, shall we? Paul is at the forefront on the anti-circumcision side of the issue. Jesus' original Apostles deliberate on the subject and come to the conclusion in the Spirit that gentiles should not be forced to bear anything under the Law their Fathers did not have to bear i.e. adult male circumcision. This edict along with the admonitions to abstain from sexual immorality and the eating of meat that has been sacrificed to idols nor meat that had been strangled and [edit: this ruling] was declared to be shared among all followers. What does Paul, ring leader of the 'you don't need to be circumcised' faction immediately do? He has his destined to be famous traveling companion, Timothy, circumcised. The KJV version even has Paul doing the knife job himself...

WTF?!!! This type of behavior makes no rational sense at all. Not only that, Paul goes on later to preach vehemently through his letters just how wrong getting circumcised is, that we would be dismissing Christ's sacrifice in doing so by seeking to become righteous under the law and casting aside God's grace and so forth. If you ask me all this seems to be quite queer activity and I do not use that term loosely in the vernacular nor in a derogatory fashion. It's an extremely unusual, random, and out of place series of events for a man that is supposedly speaking and acting for God.