"On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews. For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles." (NIV)
Because the apostles recognized the miracle of Paul's arrival at the same conclusion they had reached, they acknowledged God's calling for him to preach to the Gentiles. After all, if a man comes to you saying that he's been sent to teach everything you ever learned from your private conversations with your best friend, how could you do anything but accept the fact that it's God's will for him to preach to whoever he says God told him to preach to? Paul could not have taught himself the ideas the apostles learned from their personal walk with Jesus; it had to be revealed to him by God. So whatever he says God told him must be the truth.
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