flight from Damascus. The portrayal in Acts corresponds to Luke’s ecclesiology, for the evangelist is interested in the unity of the developing church, which is here expressed in an exemplary fashion by Paul immediately establishing contact with the Jerusalem apostles.17 Whereas in Gal. 1:18 Paul speaks of only one trip to Jerusalem prior to the apostolic council, in Acts he had already been in Jerusalem a second time before the council (11:27–30). Here, too, we should follow Paul’s own testimony,