"God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles" (Gal.1:15-16)
To understand the man who was struck blind so he could see, we need to grasp the impact of what it meant to go from Saul the persecutor of Christians to Paul the first Christian missionary.
Paul grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in Gentile city. He was reared as closely to the letter of the Jewish law as possible as Paul wrote himself:
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.
(Phil.3:5-6)
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