Galatians 1:22

and was unknown rather, and I continued unknown. So far from his having learned the truths which he taught from the other Apostles, the Churches of Judæa, to which they principally ministered at this time, did not know him even by sight. It is not certain whether the Church of Jerusalem is included among these. Bengel says, "outside Jerusalem." But it is quite possible that during the fortnight spent in Jerusalem he had not become personally known to the brethren there.

which were in Christ The word Church (ecclesia, an assembly, Acts 19:32; Acts 19:39; Acts 19:41) had not yet acquired the exclusively restricted sense of a Christiancongregation. The Church of God (with its component churches or congregations) had existed in the patriarchal age and in subsequent times (even in the dark days when "they that feared the Lord spake often one to another"), until the coming of Christ. But they were not -in Christ", until they had believed in and confessed the faith of Christ crucified.