to that region (Gal 1:21), for probably about 13 years until Barnabus was sent by the church in Antioch to bring him to that city so he could help them teach the exploding number of new converts they were experiencing (Ac 11:19–26). Then, after observing him for an entire year (Ac 11:26), the elders of the church were instructed by the Holy Spirit to send him out as an apostle in partnership with Barnabus (Ac 13:1–3). The fact that he had been formally “set apart” for his ministry by the church in
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