"he reported having experienced a vision of the resurrected Jesus. The account says that ""he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"" Saul replied, ""Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: ""[it is]"" hard for thee to kick against the pricks (goads)."" According to the account in , he was blinded for three days and had to be led into Damascus by the hand. During these three days, Saul took no food or water and spent his time in prayer to God. When"
"Acts says that Paul was on his way from Jerusalem to Syrian Damascus with a mandate issued by the High Priest to seek out and arrest followers of Jesus, with the intention of returning them to Jerusalem as prisoners for questioning and possible execution. The journey is interrupted when Paul sees a blinding light, and communicates directly with a divine voice. The account continues with a description of Ananias of Damascus receiving a divine revelation instructing him to visit Saul at the house of Judas on the Street Called Straight and there lay hands on him to restore his sight"
"Conversion on the Way to Damascus The Conversion on the Way to Damascus (""Conversione di San Paolo"") is a masterpiece by Caravaggio, painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in Rome. The painting depicts the moment recounted in Chapter 9 of Acts of the Apostles when Saul, soon to be the apostle Paul, fell on the road to Damascus. He heard the Lord say ""I am Jesus, whom you persecute, arise and go into the city"" (see Conversion of Paul). The ""Golden Legend"", a compilation of medieval interpretations of biblical events, may"
"to both Jewish and Roman audiences. According to writings in the New Testament and prior to his conversion, Paul was dedicated to persecuting the early disciples of Jesus in the area of Jerusalem. In the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles (often referred to simply as Acts), Paul was traveling on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus on a mission to ""arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem"" when the resurrected Jesus appeared to him in a great light. He was struck blind, but after three days his sight was restored by Ananias of Damascus and Paul began"
"crucifixion. Paul's conversion occurred after Jesus' crucifixion. The accounts of Paul's conversion experience describe it as miraculous, supernatural, or otherwise revelatory in nature. Before his conversion, Paul, then known as Saul, was ""a Pharisee of Pharisees"", who ""intensely persecuted"" the followers of Jesus. Says Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians: ""For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers."""
"""The Conversion of St. Paul"" (as its title suggests) represents the conversion of a lawyer from Tarsus named Saul (a man who prosecuted Christians) into a follower of Christ. In the book of Acts Paul states that he saw an impossibly bright light and heard the voice of Christ himself. The blindingly bright light is the Apex of this story; it is because of this that Michelangelo chose to situate this painting on the Western wall with the eastern exposure – so that the lunette situated above ""The Crucifixion of St. Peter"" would provide a bright light to illuminate it"
"The Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo) The Conversion of Saul is a fresco by painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1542-1545). It is housed in the Capella Paolina, Vatican Palace, int eh Vatican City. This piece depicts the moment in which Saul is converted to Christianity while on the road to Damascus. The work was commissioned by Pope Paul III for the chapel of his namesake. This chapel was built by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger in 1537 to 1538 with the patronage of Pope Paul III Farnese to serve as both storage for the consecrated Host and as the location in"
"plans to journey to the southwest portion of Asia Minor to preach the gospel but during the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him to go to Macedonia to help them. After seeing the vision, Paul and his companions left for Macedonia to preach the gospel to them. The Church kept growing, adding believers, and strengthening in faith daily. In Philippi, Paul cast a spirit of divination out of a servant girl, whose masters were then unhappy about the loss of income her soothsaying provided (). They turned the city against the missionaries,"
"includes the conversion of Saul of Tarsus (the Apostle Paul). After Christ had told Saul to enter Damascus where Saul would be told what he ""must"" do, Saul was blind for three days and was praying during this time. Ananias arrived, cured Paul of his blindness and baptized Saul. Others see it as an example of apparently instantaneous salvation coming through repentance without water baptism or any kind of work, citing the assurance Jesus gave to the penitent thief on a cross next to him during the crucifixion. An opposing position here is that the penitent thief was dying under"
"into the prison with the help of high-ranking Romans, but allows him to visit Paul unscathed because those Romans are also friends of Mauritius. Paul begins narrating his origins: That as Saul of Tarsus, a Jewish boy, he was influenced by the zealotry of the Jewish leaders and witnessed the martyrdom of Stephen at their hands for professing faith in Jesus Christ. This event made Saul vow to destroy all Christians throughout the world. Mauritius laments the fact that he has been made prefect of the prison despite his many deeds for Rome and that his daughter is dying from"
"Paul provides a litany of his own apostolic appointment to preach among the Gentiles and his post-conversion convictions about the risen Christ. Paul is critical both theologically and empirically of claims of moral or lineal superiority of Jews while conversely strongly sustaining the notion of a special place for the Children of Israel. There are debates as to whether Paul understood himself as commissioned to take the gospel to the Gentiles at the moment of his conversion. After his conversion, Paul went to Damascus, where Acts 9 states he was healed of his blindness and baptized by Ananias of Damascus."
"that dwelt in Damascus (). According to F. F. Bruce, this indicates that he was not one of the refugees from the persecution in Jerusalem described in . During his conversion experience, Jesus had told Paul (who was then called Saul) to go into the city and wait. Jesus later spoke to Ananias in a vision, and told him to go to the ""street which is called Straight"", and ask ""in the house of Judas for ""one"" called Saul, of Tarsus"". () Ananias objected that Saul had been persecuting ""thy saints"", but the Lord told him that Saul was ""a"
"López-Rey, Saint Paul's head is ""sharply drawn"" and the image itself is ""somewhat rubbed and darkened"", a style typical of Velázquez's early works. According to the New Testament, Paul was traveling to Damascus when he saw a bea of light and was visited by Jesus, who struck him blind. Three days later, Paul regained his sight and began to preach Christianity to the people. In this painting, Saint Paul is depicted wearing a large brown robe to symbolize his pilgrimage from the Holy Land to Damascus. The loose and thick cloak contains numerous creases, which suggest the heaviness of the"
"towards the viewer, with the use of heavy foreshortening, this almost 3-D representation of the hoof shows more imbalance and tension. The conversion of Paul from persecutor to apostle is a biblical story from the New Testament. According to the account in the book of Acts, Paul, before his conversion, was a ""zealous"" Pharisee, who took part in persecuting the followers of Jesus- even participating in the stoning of Stephen. After his conversion, Paul becomes an apostle. Conversion on the Way to Damascus The Conversion on the Way to Damascus (""Conversione di San Paolo"") is a masterpiece by Caravaggio, painted"
"forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” Another dramatic conversion to Christianity occurred in the life of the Apostle Paul whose formal name had been Saul of Tarsus. He was a zealot for the cause of Second Temple Judaism who had been ""breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord"". While traveling to Damascus to arrest Jewish Christians, he fell to the ground upon being surrounded by a"
"is recorded in the Bible that Paul the Apostle, who started out as a Jewish persecutor of the Church, underwent sudden conversion on the way to Damascus when Jesus Christ appeared to him in a vision. Regarded as the type of sudden conversion, this event was followed by baptism, with, however, a period of study and learning following, lasting a number of years. While there are examples of people being immediately baptised after having declared their faith, it seems that this was the exception rather than the rule (see above). Quoting Shaye J. D. Cohen: ""From the Maccabees to the"
"Paul says that it was in Damascus that he barely escaped death. Paul also says that he then went first to Arabia, and then came back to Damascus. Paul's trip to Arabia is not mentioned anywhere else in the Bible, and some suppose he actually traveled to Mount Sinai for meditations in the desert. He describes in Galatians how three years after his conversion he went to Jerusalem. There he met James and stayed with Simon Peter for 15 days. Paul located Mount Sinai in Arabia in . Paul asserted that he received the Gospel not from man, but directly"
"accounts in Acts, Saul found himself on the ground, blinded by the intensity of a heavenly light. The risen Jesus gave Saul a commission to ""be a light to the Gentiles"". Called to be ""God’s great missionary to the Gentiles"", Paul also can claim what Bilezikian has termed ""an inaugural statement"" in the New Testament: Because of Paul's exhortations throughout Galatians about freedom ""in Christ"", Galatians has been called “the Magna Carta of the Reformation” and Luther’s “Katie von Bora.” It is the book on which the Protestant Reformation was founded. F.F. Bruce writes that the purpose of this letter"
"rather than a short cut. In this book the spirit that was incarnated as Saul of Tarsus (later, Paul) seeks to dispel the dogma he created as Paul. This spirit was assisted with the message by other spiritual intelligences as he had just returned from his most recent incarnation. The spirit relays how he, in his own mind as Paul, formed the idea that Jesus' mission was about his ""death""; a blood sacrifice that would atone for sin in order to save mankind. But now this spirit wants to tell us that he, himself, was the originator of this theory;"
"marks a major turning point: the Jews have rejected the message, and henceforth it will be taken to the Gentiles. The message is taken to the Samaritans, a people rejected by Jews, and to the Gentiles. Saul of Tarsus, one of the Jews who persecuted the Christians, is converted by a vision to become a follower of Christ (an event which Luke regards as so important that he relates it three times). Peter, directed by a series of visions, preaches to Cornelius the Centurion, a Gentile God-fearer, who becomes a follower of Christ. The Holy Spirit descends on Peter and"
"Saul Saul (; , meaning ""asked for, prayed for""), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the first king of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah. His reign, traditionally placed in the late 11th century BCE, marked a transition from a tribal society to statehood. Saul's life and reign are described in the Hebrew Bible. He was anointed by the prophet Samuel and reigned from Gibeah. He fell on his sword (committing suicide) to avoid capture in the battle against the Philistines at Mount Gilboa, during which three of his sons were also killed. The succession to his throne was contested"
"Paul took place in ca. AD 53-55. In the New King James Version, this chapter is sub-divided as: Sceva () was a Jew called a ""chief priest"" (). Some scholars note that it was not uncommon for some members of the Zadokite clan to take on an unofficial high-priestly role, which may explain this moniker. However, it is more likely that he was an itinerant exorcist based on the use of the Greek term () ""going from place to place"" in . In this verse, it is recorded that he had seven sons who attempted to exorcise a demon from"
"bright light ""from heaven"". He heard a voice accusing him: ""Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"" The experience rendered him temporarily blind. The voice directed him to go on to Damascus where he was cured and baptized by Ananias of Damascus, was described as being filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to passionately proclaim the Christian gospel (good news). In the book of Romans there is a description of what transpires through water baptism. We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? (repentance) Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized"
"de Comminges, in Montréjeau. His father, Thomas Paul, died shortly after this. As a young man of 18, Paul entered the seminary in Toulouse to become a Catholic priest, where he began the study of Hebrew, which he has said determined his future. He then fulfilled his military duty for the next three years, serving in Algeria and Morocco. Returning to France and his studies, Paul enrolled at University Seminary of Pope Pius XI in Toulouse, where he earned a licentiate in theology. He then went to Paris, where he joined the Society of Saint-Sulpice, dedicated to the training of"
"of Paul's life out of its narrative, such as his probable but undocumented execution in Rome. Some scholars believe Acts also contradicts Paul's epistles on multiple accounts, in particular concerning the frequency of Paul's visits to the church in Jerusalem. Sources outside the New Testament that mention Paul include: It has been popularly assumed that Saul's name was changed when he became a follower of Jesus Christ, but that is not the case. His Jewish name was ""Saul"" (), perhaps after the biblical King Saul, a fellow Benjamite and the first king of Israel. According to the Book of Acts,"
"several times, the apostles had faced trouble with Saul, and the gospel spreads around Judea and Sameria. After Saul converts to the faith, he goes out, teaching about Jesus as he went. He changed his name to Paul, and he went to many places in the Roman world, and finally, Rome. The Visual Bible: Acts The Visual Bible: Acts is a 1994 Christian film that depicts the events of the Acts of the Apostles from the New Testament. All of the dialogue is word-for-word scripture, taken directly from the New International Version of the Bible. The Visual Bible project had"
"in Jesus' death and in his victory over death, gaining as a free gift a new, justified status of sonship. Some scholars see Paul (or Saul) as completely in line with 1st-century Judaism (a Pharisee and student of Gamaliel as presented by Acts), others see him as opposed to 1st-century Judaism (see Marcionism), while the majority see him as somewhere in between these two extremes, opposed to ""Ritual Laws"" (for example the circumcision controversy in early Christianity) but in full agreement on ""Divine Law"". These views of Paul are paralleled by the views of Biblical law in Christianity. Paul's theology"
"Cornelius, thus confirming that the message of eternal life in Christ is for all mankind. The Gentile church is established in Antioch (north-western Syria, the third-largest city of the empire), and here Christ's followers are first called Christians. The mission to the Gentiles is promoted from Antioch and confirmed at meeting in Jerusalem between Paul and the leadership of the Jerusalem church. Paul spends the next few years traveling through western Asia Minor and the Aegean, preaching, converting Gentiles, and founding new churches. On a visit to Jerusalem he is set on by a Jewish mob. Saved by the Roman"
"and Paul and Silas were put in jail. After a miraculous earthquake, the gates of the prison fell apart and Paul and Silas could have escaped but remained; this event led to the conversion of the jailor (). They continued traveling, going by Berea and then to Athens, where Paul preached to the Jews and God-fearing Greeks in the synagogue and to the Greek intellectuals in the Areopagus. Paul continued from Athens to Corinth. Around 50–52, Paul spent 18 months in Corinth. The reference in Acts to Proconsul Gallio helps ascertain this date (cf. Gallio Inscription). In Corinth, Paul met"
"The Conversion of Saint Paul (Caravaggio) The Conversion of Saint Paul (or ""Conversion of Saul""), by the Italian painter Caravaggio, is housed in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection of Rome. It is one of at least two paintings by Caravaggio of the same subject, the Conversion of Paul. Another is ""The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus"", in the Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo. The painting, together with a ""Crucifixion of Saint Peter"", was commissioned by Monsignor (later Cardinal) Tiberio Cerasi, Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII, in September 1600. According to Caravaggio's early biographer Giovanni Baglione,"
"Paul's today. This letter was the start of a lengthy correspondence. The east window shows the story of the Conversion of St Paul, taken from the Acts of the Apostles, including the Stoning of Stephen; Saul struck down on the road to Damascus; and Ananias curing Paul's blindness. The windows along the south side of the church are believed to have been the next to be glazed. While each window was commissioned and paid for individually, they were conceived as a set. These windows depict the life of Christ, from Nativity to Ascension, but unusually there is no Crucifixion scene;"
"Saint Paul's Church, Tarsus Saint Paul's Church is a former Greek Orthodox church in Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Tarsus, in the Cilicia of the antiquity, in what is now southern Turkey, was an important city during both ancient and medieval ages. The tombs of Daniel of the Bible, and the caliph Al-Ma'mun (786-833), are both in Tarsus. Saint Paul was a resident of Tarsus. He was born and lived in Tarsus as a Jew named Saul and after converting, made a number of missionary journeys during which he was arrested and beheaded by emperor Nero of Roman Empire in AD"
"his worthiness to become an apostle. Paul the Apostle Paul the Apostle (; ; ; c. 5 – c. 64 or 67), commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Jewish name Saul of Tarsus (; ), was an apostle (though not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of Christ to the first-century world. Paul is generally considered one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age and in the mid-30s to the mid-50s AD he founded several churches in Asia Minor and Europe. He took advantage of his status as both a Jew"