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Originally Posted by Amanah
plus didn't he go spend time afterwards in prayer and solitude before he started preaching? like maybe 3 years?
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Acts 9:19-25 in seems he began preaching right away in Damascus. Then in verse 26 it speaks of him coming to Jerusalem. This may have been the 15 days he spent with Peter and James spoken of in
Galatians 1:18-19. In verse 30 of that same 9th chapter of Acts he seems to drop out of view again and the churches "had rest."
The 3 years in Arabia could fit into either of these places. In AD 42 Barnabas was sent by the leaders in Jerusalem to check out the church in Antioch because of the number of Gentiles in it. in
Acts 11:25 Barnabus goes to Tarsus to seek for Saul and brings him to Antioch possibly in early AD 43. In the latter part of
Acts 11 a prophet named Agabus prophesies of a famine that was coming. There was a poor harvest in AD 45 and a failed harvest in AD 46. It seems that Paul took food to the church at Jerusalem in AD 46 which would have been 14 years after his conversion and this is spoken of in
Galatians 2:1-2. The going to Jerusalem "by revelation" may mean in response to the prophecy of Agabus a couple years before. It is recorded in the first few verses of
Acts 13 that Paul and others were ministering as prophets and teachers in the Antioch assembly and he left there in March AD 47 (beginning of the sailing season for what we call his first missionary journey.
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