What was Paul's status in Judaism when God sent him out to the Gentiles?
By the time God sent him out to the Gentiles, three years after his conversion, Paul had been brought down to nothing in Judaism. He was no longer high up in Judaism or held in high esteem by the Jews as the student of Gamaliel; he was regarded as a nobody.
Les explains that although Paul had accomplished a lot in Judaism, by the time God was ready to send him out to the Gentiles three years after his conversion, he was a nobody. He was no longer high up in Judaism and no longer held in high esteem by the Jews as the student of Gamaliel. Saul had been brought down to nothing. Paul also describes his speech as contemptible, and he was not an orator like Apollos.