Passage

What the churches heard

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

²³but they only heard, “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

Galatians 1:23World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The writer recounts what people heard about him: the former persecutor was now preaching the faith he had tried to destroy.

Verse 22 says the communities in Judea did not know him by sight. Their response in verse 24 is to glorify God because of him.

How do these communities learn of the writer's change without knowing him by sight?