Acts 9:26

Verse 26. Was come to Jerusalem. It is probable that he then went immediately to Jerusalem, Ga 1:18. This was three years after his conversion. He assayed. He attempted; he endeavoured. To join himself. To become connected with them as their fellow Christian. But they were all afraid of him. Their fear, or suspicion, was excited probably on these grounds: (1.) They remembered his former violence against Christians. They had an instinctive shrinking from him, and suspicion of the man that had been so violent a persecutor. (2.) He had been absent three years. If they had not heard of him during that time, they would naturally retain much of their old feelings towards him.