Why wouldn't Christ just send Paul to the 12 for instruction? Why wouldn't Christ give Peter the information that he would teach Paul? As a matter of fact, why wasn't Paul just made the 12th Disciple, instead of Matthias?
Acts 9:26: "And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples; bu they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple." Why the fear? Why didn't Christ speak to Peter the way he spoke to Paul and tell Peter that Paul was a chosen vessel unto Him? THe Disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, what they bound on earth was bound in heaven, what they loosed on earth was loosed in heaven. They would have had confirmation of Paul's revelations from the risen Christ, had Christ chosen to reveal it to them. Yet we read:
"And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; AND SAW HIM SAYING UNTO ME, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will NOT RECEIVE THY TESTIMONY CONCERNING ME". Acts 22:17,18.
This was Paul's first return to Jerusalem after his conversion. The Lord appeared to Paul again, commanding him to depart from Jerusalem because his testimony to Israel would now be futile. What had made his testimony to Israel futile? Something changed. Peter and the 11 were told to stay REMAIN IN JERUSALEM. Paul was told to quickly depart Jerusalem. Hmmmm....Obviously THEY were performing something HE wasn't part of...and vise-versa.
Again, and again, and again....
Paul did not receive a different gospel. Paul was in danger, the Jewish converts did not accept him because they were AFRAID of him. He had been persecuting them, he was known for it, he was there when St. Stephen was martyred.
Acts 9:26: “And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples; bu they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.”
That is why Jesus told him they would never accept PAUL’s TESTIMONY because of what he had wrought on the new Christian communities.
The other Apostles did accept Paul and had received revelation that he was a disciple. In all the NT, is there a place where any of the others speak against him? NO, they knew who he was.
He could not go to them to learn from them because they were all suspicious and wary of him. He had to have the type of conversion he had. As I have explained to you before.
And Jesus only told the Apostles to stay in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came upon them. Is it your assertion that only Paul ever left Jerusalem and preached to the Gentiles?