After this I went (by admonition from God, Acts xxii. 17, 18,) to Cæsarea which is in Syria, (see note [c] Matt. xvi.) and thence to Tarsus, (my native city in Cilicia, Acts xxii. 3,) Acts ix. 30. And all this while I was not so much as known to the churches of Judæa that had received the faith, that is, to those other beside that of Jerusalem mentioned ver. 18. (All which I have said to shew (what was undertaken, ver. 11,) how far I was from receiving instructions from any other but Christ himself, ver. 16.) All that they knew of me was, that they had heard of my preaching the Christian doctrine, which I had persecuted.