Galatians 1:19-23

But I did not see another one of the apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.

(Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.)

Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which are in Christ;

but they only kept hearing, “The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy.”