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To see Paul as he saw himself, as a Jewish apostle — not a Jewish apostate — Christians today must learn to read his epistles with new eyes, ...

Paul tells us in Romans 16:7 that Andronicus and his wife, Junia, were both imprisoned for the sake of Jesus: “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me.

The conversion of Paul the Apostle was a watershed moment in Christianity. Here’s how his efforts to spread the faith jumpstarted what is now the world’s largest religion.

Brem said the Apostle Paul was very intelligent and well-educated, a leading Pharisee who had guarded the coats of the men who stoned the saintly Stephen to death in Acts 7:54-60-8:1.

The apostles preached the Gospel all across the ancient world, but for the Apostle to the Gentiles, political status and cosmopolitan sensibilities were needed. Saul of Tarsus had these things ...