🕊️WEB · Galatians 1:23
What does Galatians 1:23 mean?
"but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”"
— Galatians 1:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.
Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
And they glorified God in me.
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