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what Acts says is his hometown.
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So maybe he went to Tarsus, we don't know.
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He just says he went to Syria.
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I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea that are in Christ;
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they only heard it said,
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"The one who formerly was persecuting us is now
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proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy.
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And they glorified God.
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"I was not known by sight,"
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they heard my reputation,
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they heard that I had persecuted followers of Jesus,
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but nobody, no follower of Jesus in Judea knew what I looked like