Acts 9:20

"And straightway in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that He is the Son of God" Note the plural, many synagogues existed in Damascus.

It is easy to overlook all that is taking place in the above verse. The great opponent of Christianity, who had come to Damascus with authoritative letters from the high priest in Jerusalem, was now defending Christianity in the very synagogues in which he had planned to support his oppression of Christians, Boy, did they hear. different sermon than they had planned on hearing. It takes. big man to stand up in public and admit that you were dead wrong about something. Some might call him. hypocrite,. traitor, one who had sold out, but that did not stop Paul from preaching. Notice that becoming. Christian is not about finding. life of ease and comfort. In certain respects, Saul's life now became more complicated and filled with even greater hardship. Bruce notes, "But instead of presenting his letters of credence and demanding the extradition of the disciples of Jesus, here was the man whose arrival they had expected, but instead of arresting Christians he was confounding the Jews of Damascus by his powerful demonstration that the Christian's claim was true" (p. 203).