Paradoxically, as a Christian, Saul was to suffer many things he himself had meted out as a persecutor, so that years later he could say: “By Jews I five times received forty strokes less one. ” ​ — 2 Corinthians 11: 24.
उसने आगे कहा: “तौभी मुझ पर दया हुई, क्योंकि मैं ने अविश्‍वास की दशा में बिन समझे बूझे, ये काम किए थे । ”