³⁷Acts 11:27–30 implies that the donation trip was Paul’s second visit to Jerusalem after his conversion at Damascus. Meanwhile, in Gal 2:1, the apostle calls the second trip the one connected with the controversy over the problem of the baptized Gentiles (“the Apostolic Council,” Acts 15). Many researchers equate these two visits, believing that St. Paul in Galatians speaks of certain events before the “council.” However, the apostle writes in Galatians that he arrived a second time in Jerusalem 14 years after his conversion. The starting point for the chronology is an inscription found in Delphi in 1905. According to this inscription, Gallio was the proconsul of Achaia from 51 to 52 AD. And it is clear from Acts 18:11–12 that Paul arrived in Corinth a year and a half before the appointment of Gallio, i.e., around the year 49. Given that he arrived there shortly after the “council,” this is the year that the Jerusalem meeting described in Acts 15 should be dated to. If we subtract 14 years indicated by the apostle in Galatians, we come to 35 AD as the year of his conversion. There may be inaccuracies up to a year. It is doubtful that St. Stephen was killed during the reign of Pilate (see note on p. §). Pilate was recalled from Judea at the end of 36 or at the beginning of 37 AD. So, the event at Damascus should be dated to this time. The biographers of Paul, who shift the date of his conversion to the year 32 (equating the events of Acts 11:27 and Gal 2:1), do not take into account that Damascus passed into the hands of King Aretas (2 Cor 11:32) only after the death of Tiberius (37 AD). Paul’s not mentioning in Galatians his visit to Judea during the famine in 45 AD may be explained by the fact that this trip had no connection with the issues discussed in the epistle. This time he may not have met with the apostles, since Peter (and John?) had left Jerusalem in 44 AD.^[51]