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AnswerPaul tells us that soon after his conversion to Christianity, he spent three years in Damascus, but escaped the city when the governor under Aretas, king of the Nabateans from 9 BCE to 40 CE, had a garrison deployed to arrest him because of his Christian activities (1 Cor 11:32-33). There is no reason at this stage to assume that the escape should have occurred near the end of the king's reign, a somewhat improbable coincidence, but Paul's conversion was certainly no later than the year 36. Other information from the epistles suggests a date much earlier than this for Paul's conversion.
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