Galatians 1:18-24

¹⁸ “Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him for fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I did not see another one of the apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰ (Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.)²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which are in Christ; ²³ but they only kept hearing, “The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy.” ²⁴ And they were glorifying God because of me.”

Paul experienced a tremendous change from the Gospel. He went from killing Christians to becoming one and reaching the world with the Gospel. This was hard for the early church to accept. They only knew Paul as the killer of Christians. But eventually they learned to trust Paul and in doing so, caught on to God’s bigger plan to reach the Gentiles.