Acts 9:23

Verse 23. When many days were passed. By the account Saint Paul gives of himself, (Gal. chapter 1) soon after his conversion he went into Arabia, and about three years after he might come to Damascus. Then it seems to have happened that they were for killing him, for becoming a Christian; and the brethren saved his life, by conveying him down the walls of the town in a basket. After this, he went to Jerusalem, where the disciples knew little of him, and were afraid of him, till S. Barnabas introduced him to the apostles, and gave an account of his conversion. Witham.—Many days. That is, three years. For Saul went for a time from Damascus to Arabia. Galatians 1:17 and 18. It was on his return from thence, that the Jews conspired against his life, as is here related. Tirinus.