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so he's talking about he went away to that area that we would
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now call eastern Syria or Jordan.
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Remember Damascus is one of the large cities in Syria,
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so that's where he goes.
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"Afterwards I returned to Damascus.
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After three years," we get a nice little chronological note
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"I did go to Jerusalem to visit Cephas"
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Who is Cephas?
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Peter, exactly.
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Cephas is the Aramaic word for "rock" or "stone,"
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and Peter is the Greek word for "rock" or "stone."
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Again, we have two different names.