Did Paul go to Jerusalem from Damascus immediately after his conversion? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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Yes

Acts 9:26 View context

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.

No

Galatians 1:16-17 View context

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.