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Entry: Paul (person-paul)
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Current wording: Named at Acts 7:58: when they threw Stephen out of the city and stoned him, the witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. Acts 8:1–3 says that Saul was consenting to Stephen’s death, and that he ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison; at 9:1–9 Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, asks the high priest for letters to the synagogues of Damascus, and as he gets close to Damascus a light from the sky shines around him; he falls on the earth and hears a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”, and when he asks, “Who are you, Lord?”, the Lord says, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” and Saul is without sight for three days, and neither eats nor drinks; at 9:10–18, when Ananias lays his hands on him, something like scales falls from Saul’s eyes, and he receives his sight, arises and is baptized; at 9:19–25 Saul proclaims in the synagogues that the Christ is the Son of God and confounds the Jews who live at Damascus, and when the Jews conspire to kill him, his disciples let him down through the wall by night, lowering him in a basket; and at 9:26–30, when Saul comes to Jerusalem, the disciples are all afraid of him, but Barnabas brings him to the apostles, and Saul preaches boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputes against the Hellenists, who seek to kill him, and the brothers bring him down to Caesarea and send him off to Tarsus. Acts 11:25–30 says that Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul and brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly and taught many people, and that the disciples sent relief to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul; at 12:25 Barnabas and Saul return to Jerusalem when they have fulfilled their service, taking with them John who was called Mark; 13:1–3 names Saul among the prophets and teachers in the assembly at Antioch, where the Holy Spirit says, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me”; at 13:9–11 Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastens his eyes on Elymas the sorcerer and says, “you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!”; at 13:14–41 Paul stands up in the synagogue at Antioch of Pisidia and, gesturing with his hand, speaks; at 13:46 Paul and Barnabas say, “behold, we turn to the Gentiles”; at 14:8–10 in Lystra Paul, seeing that a man who had never walked had faith to be made whole, says with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!”, and the man leaps up and walks; at 14:12 the multitude calls Paul “Mercury”, because he is the chief speaker; and at 14:19–20 some Jews stone Paul and drag him out of the city, supposing that he is dead, but he rises up, enters into the city, and on the next day goes out with Barnabas to Derbe. At Acts 15:1–4 Paul and Barnabas have no small discord and discussion with some men who came down from Judea, and Paul, Barnabas, and some others are appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders; at 15:12 the multitude listens to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them; at 15:22–35 Judas called Barsabbas and Silas are sent to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, and Paul and Barnabas stay in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord; at 15:36–41, when Barnabas plans to take John, who was called Mark, Paul doesn’t think that it is a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and after the contention grows so sharp that they separate from each other, Paul chooses Silas and goes through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies; at 16:1–3 Paul comes to Derbe and Lystra, wants to have Timothy go out with him, and circumcises him because of the Jews who were in those parts; at 16:9–10 a vision appears to Paul in the night of a man of Macedonia, begging him and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us”; at 16:14 the Lord opens Lydia’s heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul; at 16:16–18 Paul says to the spirit of divination, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!”; at 16:19–40 Paul and Silas are seized, beaten with rods and thrown into prison, a great earthquake comes about midnight, the jailer and all his household are baptized, and when it is day Paul says, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison!”; at 17:1–9 Paul reasons from the Scriptures in the Jewish synagogue at Thessalonica for three Sabbath days, saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ”; at 17:10–15 the brothers send Paul and Silas to Beroea, and when the Jews of Thessalonica learn that the word of God is proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also and agitate the multitudes, the brothers send Paul out to go as far as to the sea, and those who escorted Paul bring him as far as Athens; at 17:16–34 Paul, seeing the city of Athens full of idols, reasons in the synagogue and in the marketplace, and stands in the middle of the Areopagus and says, “You men of Athens …”; at 18:1–11 Paul lives and works at Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla, “for by trade they were tent makers,” reasons in the synagogue every Sabbath, says, “From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”, hears the Lord say to him in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent,” and lives there a year and six months, teaching the word of God; at 18:12–17, when Gallio is proconsul of Achaia, the Jews bring Paul before the judgment seat; and at 18:18–23 Paul sails for Syria with Priscilla and Aquila, reasons with the Jews in the synagogue at Ephesus, lands at Caesarea, goes down to Antioch, and goes through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples. Acts 19:1–7 says that Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples who said they had been baptized into John’s baptism; they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, and when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them; at 19:8–10 Paul speaks boldly in the synagogue for three months, then reasons daily in the school of Tyrannus for two years; at 19:11–12 God works special miracles by the hands of Paul; at 19:21–22 Paul determines to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome,” and sends Timothy and Erastus into Macedonia; at 19:26 Demetrius says that “this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands”; at 19:30–31, when Paul wants to enter in to the people, the disciples don’t allow him, and certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, beg him not to venture into the theater; at 20:1–3 Paul goes into Macedonia and comes into Greece, and when a plot is made against him by Jews he determines to return through Macedonia; at 20:7–12, as Paul talks until midnight, Eutychus falls from the third floor and is taken up dead, and Paul falls upon him and, embracing him, says, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him”; at 20:17–38 Paul sends from Miletus to Ephesus and calls to himself the elders of the assembly, tells them, “Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,” and, “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more,” and kneels down and prays with them all; at 21:4 disciples say to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem, and at 21:12–13, when, the text says, “both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem,” Paul answers, “I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus”; at 21:18–26, the text says, “Paul went in with us to James”; he reports the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry, and, as he is told, takes the four men who have taken a vow, purifies himself and goes with them into the temple; and at 21:27–40 the Jews from Asia lay hands on Paul in the temple, the commanding officer commands him to be bound with two chains, and Paul says, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city,” and, given permission, speaks to the people from the stairs in the Hebrew language. Acts 22:1–21 gives the defense made in the Hebrew language: “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel”; he tells that he persecuted this Way, and that as he came close to Damascus a great light shone around him from the sky and a voice said to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”; one Ananias came and said, “Brother Saul, receive your sight!”; and in a trance in the temple the Lord said to him, “Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.” At 22:22–30, after the people listen to him until he says that, the commanding officer orders Paul to be examined by scourging; Paul asks, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?” and says, “But I was born a Roman,” and on the next day the commanding officer sets him before the council. At 23:1–10 Paul says, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today,” and the high priest, Ananias, commands those who stand by him to strike him on the mouth; Paul cries out, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”, and an argument arises between the Pharisees and Sadducees. At 23:11 the Lord stands by him and says, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.” At 23:12–35 more than forty men bind themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed Paul; Paul’s sister’s son hears they are lying in wait and tells Paul; the commanding officer sends Paul to Felix the governor, the soldiers bring him by night to Antipatris, and at Caesarea the governor commands that he be kept in Herod’s palace. At 24:1–27 the high priest, Ananias, and the orator Tertullus inform the governor against Paul; Paul answers, “according to the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers”; Felix comes with Drusilla his wife and hears Paul concerning the faith in Christ Jesus; and when two years are fulfilled, Felix, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, leaves Paul in bonds. At 25:6–12, before Festus, Paul says, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all,” and “I appeal to Caesar!”; at 25:23, when Agrippa and Bernice have entered into the place of hearing, Paul is brought in at the command of Festus. Acts 26:1–29 has Paul make his defense before King Agrippa, saying that “after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee,” that he shut up many of the saints in prisons and did many things “contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth,” and that as he traveled to Damascus he saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, and heard a voice saying to him in the Hebrew language, “Saul, Saul”; when Festus says, “Paul, you are crazy!”, Paul answers, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.” At 26:30–32 the king, the governor and Bernice withdraw and say, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds,” and Agrippa says to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.” 27:1 says, “When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band”; at 27:21–26, “When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them,” and he tells them that an angel stood by him that night, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you”; and at 27:43 the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stops the soldiers from their purpose. At 28:3–8, on Malta, a viper fastens on Paul’s hand, and he shakes it off into the fire and isn’t harmed, and he lays his hands on the father of Publius and heals him; 28:16 says, “When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him”; at 28:17–23 Paul calls together the leaders of the Jews, saying, “because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain,” and testifies about God’s Kingdom from morning until evening; and at 28:30–31 Paul stays two whole years in his own rented house, receives all who come to him, and preaches God’s Kingdom with all boldness, without hindrance. At 2 Corinthians 11:22–33 the writer (“I”) says, “Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often. Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.” and “In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me. I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.” At 12:2–4 he says, “I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago”, and “how he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words”; at 12:7–9, “a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan”, and “Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’” Galatians 1:1 names the writer “Paul, an apostle”, and in 1:13–2:14 the writer (“I”) says that in time past, in the Jews’ religion, he persecuted the assembly of God beyond measure and ravaged it; that “when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace, to reveal his Son in me”, he went away into Arabia and then returned to Damascus; that after three years he went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter and stayed with him fifteen days, and then came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia; that after fourteen years he went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also; and that he resisted Peter to his face when Peter came to Antioch. Philippians 1:1 names Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, as the senders, and 3:4–6 gives the words of the writer (“I”): “though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.” Philemon 1:1 calls Paul a prisoner of Christ Jesus; in 1:8–22 he appeals to Philemon for Onesimus and says he will repay.
Cited evidence: 1CO 1:1–3, engwebp / 1CO 1:10–17, engwebp / 1CO 2:1–5, engwebp / 1CO 3:1–9, engwebp / 1CO 3:10–23, engwebp / 1CO 4:14–21, engwebp / 1CO 15:1–11, engwebp / 1CO 15:29–34, engwebp (and 160 more of 168)
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