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Paul [a] (also named Saul of Tarsus; [b] c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD), commonly known as Paul the Apostle [7] and Saint Paul, [8] was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. [9] For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age ...
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Apr 23, 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 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 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).
Dec 11, 2013 · Paul the Apostle. RomanZ (CC BY-NC-SA) Paul was a follower of Jesus Christ who famously converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus after persecuting the very followers of the community that he joined. However, as we will see, Paul is better described as one of the founders of the religion rather than a convert to it.
