“And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me” (xxii, 9).
5.
After his conversion Acts states that “straight-way he preached Christ in the synagogues” (ix, 20) at Damascus; that when, soon after, the Jews sought to kill him he escaped and went immediately to Jerusalem; that “Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles” (27); “And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem” (28).
Paul denies this. Referring to his conversion he says:
“Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother” (Gal. i, 16–19).
6.
Paul declares that his mission was to the Gentiles alone.
“I am the Apostle of the Gentiles” (Rom. xi, 13).