After how long did Saul visit Peter in Jerusalem?
After three years had gone by, Saul went up to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, as he said in Galatians. He came to Jerusalem and attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him until Barnabas brought him to the apostles.
Les explains that after that three years had gone by, Saul came up to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, as he said in Galatians. When Saul arrived, he intended to join himself to the disciples, the Jewish believers in Jerusalem, but they were all afraid of him and did not believe he was a disciple. They suspected he might be going underground as a mole. Barnabas took Saul and brought him to the apostles—Peter, James, and John and the rest—and declared how Saul had seen the Lord on the way and had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. Saul was then with them in Jerusalem, coming in and going out, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputing against the Grecians, who were non-Palestine Jews, Jews who were citizens of other nations, not Palestine. But the Grecians sought to kill him, because they could not stand anybody doing anything against Judaism. Les notes that nothing preempts murderous attitudes faster than religion, and that is what they attempted to do with Saul.