I'm pretty sure he's in the NT. i think he was a guy around Then he recevied the word from God in Jesus time, maybe during, around, or right after the crucifiction. He didn't believe in Jesus I think. I think he was a respectable person in the community. I think he ended up helping the Christians eventhough it cost him. Maybe something like freeing someine in jail or something, possibly one of the disciples
2007-06-12 14:50:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
saul who turned into paul
2007-06-12 14:55:33 · answer #1 · answered by truely human 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GAMALIEL Personal name meaning, “God rewards with good.”
A highly regarded Pharisee who was a member of the Sanhedrin (Acts 5:34). He squelched a plan by the Sanhedrin to kill the apostles by reminding the members that interference with what the apostles were doing might prove to be opposition to God. If the work of the apostles were a purely human work, Gamaliel said, it would come to nothing anyway. According to Acts 22:3, this Gamaliel had been Paul’s teacher. He was the grandson of the great Rabbi Hillel. He died about A.D. 52.
2007-06-12 22:18:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out Acts 16:22-40. It talks of a time when Paul and Silas were in Jail. The jail doors flew open and the jailer was about to kill himself but Paul told him not to. Then the jailer asked what he needed to do to be saved. The Bible doesn't tell the name of the jailer.
2007-06-12 22:45:44 · answer #3 · answered by DrThorne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul
2007-06-12 21:53:54 · answer #4 · answered by Phartzalot 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paul
2007-06-12 21:53:48 · answer #5 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acts 9:1 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4 And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"
5 And he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 6 But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do." 7 The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one. 8 Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. 9 And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
10 Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "Here I am, Lord." 11 And the Lord said to him, "Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying, 12 and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight." 13 But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name." 15 But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. 16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."
Later on he is called Paul.
2007-06-12 21:58:00 · answer #6 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to look at Acts 16:23-34.
2007-06-12 22:12:48 · answer #7 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like Paul my favorite
2007-06-12 21:56:19 · answer #8 · answered by pops 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nicodemus possibly? He was the one that told Jesus that "almost ye persuade me to be a Christian"
2007-06-12 23:29:40 · answer #9 · answered by herenthere 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋