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Galatians 1:16

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to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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  • Did Paul go to Jerusalem from Damascus immediately after his conversion?

    Acts 9:26 says that when Saul came to Jerusalem after his conversion he tried to join the disciples, and the Lukan narrative places this trip very close to the Damascus event. Galatians 1:16-17, written by Paul himself, flatly denies it: he says immediately after his calling he did *not* go up to Jerusalem to confer with anyone, but went into Arabia and back to Damascus first, only going up to Jerusalem three years later (1:18).

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

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