that is, Hagar (and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter, and spent two weeks with him.

Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me