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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.
For Paul, Jesus receives prayer, [281] [282] [283] the presence of Jesus is confessionally invoked by believers, [284] [285] [286] people are baptized in Jesus' name, [287] [288] Jesus is the reference in Christian fellowship for a religious ritual meal (the Lord's Supper; [289] in pagan cults, the reference for ritual meals is always to a ...
Paul is the earliest surviving source to document Jesus' death by crucifixion and his conversion occurred two years after this event. [55] Paul mentioned details in his letters such as that Jesus was a Jew, born of the line of David, and had biological brothers. [55] According to Simon Gathercole, Paul's description of Jesus's life on Earth ...
However, the Pauline letters clearly indicate that for Paul, Jesus was a real person (born of a woman as in Gal 4.4), a Jew ("born under the law", Romans 1.3) who had disciples (1 Corinthians 15.5), who was crucified (as in 1 Corinthians 2.2 and Galatians 3.1) and later resurrected (1 Corinthians 15.20, Romans 1.4 and 6.5, Philippians 3:10–11).
For example, both E. P. Sanders and Paula Fredriksen support the historicity of the crucifixion, but contend that Jesus did not foretell his own crucifixion and that his prediction of the crucifixion is a "church creation". [79]: 126 On the other hand, Michael Patrick Barber argues that the Historical Jesus predicted his violent death. [80]
The resurrection of Jesus (Biblical Greek: ἀνάστασις τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, romanized: anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian event that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day [note 1] after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring [web 1] [note 2] – his exalted life as Christ and Lord.
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Jesus also predicted that the Son of Man would be crucified by the Romans/Gentiles. The Hebrew word gentile means non-Jewish people. [28] Judaism does not allow crucifixion as a means of punishment, [29] but Ancient Roman law did allow certain persons, such as slaves and pirates, to be crucified. [30] [31]