The Conversion of Saul: Lesson Nine

God can make a brother out of an enemy.

When Saul came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples. They were all afraid of him and did not believe he was a disciple.

Acts 9:26 (KJV): And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.

But Barnabas took him, brought him to the apostles, and told how he had seen the Lord and preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

Acts 9:27 (KJV): But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

Saul was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.

Acts 9:28 (KJV): And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.

He spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 9:29 (KJV): And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

The word went out: he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

Galatians 1:23 (KJV): But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.