I always thought the timeline was really confusing. That was the narrative we were taught in church. He persecuted early followers.
“According to the Acts, Paul lived as a Pharisee and participated in the persecution of early disciples of Jesus, possibly Hellenised diaspora Jews converted to Christianity,[12] in the area of Jerusalem, before his conversion.[note 1]”
I always thought the timeline was really confusing. That was the narrative we were taught in church. He persecuted early followers.
“According to the Acts, Paul lived as a Pharisee and participated in the persecution of early disciples of Jesus, possibly Hellenised diaspora Jews converted to Christianity,[12] in the area of Jerusalem, before his conversion.[note 1]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle