Acts 9:23-27
23When many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him,
24but their plot became known to Saul They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;
25but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.
26When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
27But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.
How hard it must have been to trust someone with a past like Saul's. It is difficult to fathom that somebody actually had the guts to trust him enough to bring him into the inner circle, the core, and speak up for him. If Saul was simply deceiving them all, he could have put the kibosh on Christianity as we know it by getting the apostles arrested and put to death. And to think, we don't forgive or trust again people who hurt our feelings.
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