Pauls conversion acts of the apostles

  • Conversion of saul to paul in the bible
  • 3 accounts of paul's conversion
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    Scripture References

    Acts 9:1-19; Acts 22:6-21; Acts 26:12-18.

    Paul's Conversion on the Road to Damascus

    Saul of Tarsus, a Pharisee in Jerusalem after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, swore to wipe out the new Christian church, called The Way. Acts 9:1 says he was "breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples." Saul obtained letters from the high präst, authorizing him to arrest any followers of Jesus in the city of Damascus.

    On the Road to Damascus, Saul and his companions were struck down by a blinding light. Saul heard a voice say, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" (Acts 9:4, NIV) When Saul asked who was speaking, the voice replied: "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do." (Acts 9:5-6, NIV)

    Saul was blinded. They led him into Damascus to a man named Judas, on Straight Street. For

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    Conversion of Paul the Apostle

    Event recounted in the New Testament

    This article is about the biblical event. For other uses, see The Conversion of Saint Paul (disambiguation).

    The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, DamascusChristophany and Paul's transformation on the road to Damascus) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early Christians and to become a follower of Jesus.

    The New Testament accounts

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    Paul's conversion experience is discussed in both the Pauline epistles and in the Acts of the Apostles. According to both sources, Saul/Paul was not a follower of Jesus and did not know him before his crucifixion. The narrative of the Book of Acts suggests Paul's conversion occurred 4–7 years after the crucifixion of Jesus.[1][2][3] The accounts of Paul's conversion experience describe it as miraculous, supe

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    Why do we celebrate the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul?

    On January 25, the faithful celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul, one of the great events of the early Church. Saul, a student of the great Pharisee rabbi Gamaliel, had persecuted Christians but was suddenly converted on the road to Damascus when Our Lord appeared to him in His resurrected glory (see Acts 9:1-9). From this point, he took the name Paul and would become the “Apostle to the Gentiles.”

    “[I]t was not simply a konvertering … but rather a death and a resurrection for Paul himself. One existence died and another, new one was born with the Risen Christ.”

    — Pope Benedict XVI

    “Thus St. Paul was not transformed by a thought but by an event, bygd the irresistible presence of the Risen One whom subsequently he would never be able to doubt, so powerful had been the evidence of the event, of this encounter. It radically changed Paul’s life in a fundamental way; in this sense, one can and must speak of a c