Galatians 1:17
instead of going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return I came back to Damascus.
Acts 9:20-25
He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"
2 Corinthians 11:32-33
(At Damascus the ethnarch of king Aretas had patrols out in the city of the Damascenes to arrest me,
Galatians 1:18
Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Cephas. I stayed a fortnight with him.