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.
שנים אחרי כן אמר: ” חמש פעמים הלקוני היהודים ארבעים חסר אחת ” (‏ קורינתים ב ’.