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Paul the Apostle. Paul [a] ( Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus ( Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl ), commonly known as Paul the Apostle [7] and Saint Paul, [8] was a Christian apostle ( c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. [9]
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May 17, 2024 · Life. Paul was a Greek -speaking Jew from Asia Minor. His birthplace, Tarsus, was a major city in eastern Cilicia, a region that had been made part of the Roman province of Syria by the time of Paul’s adulthood. Two of the main cities of Syria, Damascus and Antioch, played a prominent part in his life and letters.
Paul was born in Tarsus in the region of Cilicia (Acts 9:11; 21:39; 22:3). Little is known about his family directly. Jerome records a tradition which suggests that his parents originally came from a town in Galilee called Gischala, and that they fled to Tarsus during the Rom. devastations of Pal. in the 1st cent. b.c. (Comm. on Philemon, 23).
Paul the Apostle. Life. Paul's exact date of birth is unknown. It is reasonable to surmise that he was born within a decade of Jesus' birth. He died, probably as a martyr in Rome, in the mid- to late a.d. 60s. Paul's birthplace was not the land Christ walked but the Hellenistic city of Tarsus, chief city of the Roman province of Cilicia.
Paul wanted to visit Rome—the center of the universe in his day—on more than one occasion, but he was prevented from doing so (see Rom 1:13). Now, in the winter of A.D. 56–57, his third missionary journey has been completed and he has established the Church in the principal Mediterranean urban centers, from Jerusalem to Illyricum ( Rom 15 ...
