Galatians 1:20-24

(Let me assure you before God that I'm not lying about what I'm writing to you!)

Then I went to Syria and Cilicia.

Even so, my face wasn't known to those in the churches of Judea.

They had only heard people say, “The man who used to persecute us is now spreading the faith he once tried to destroy!”

—and they praised God because of me.