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Jan 20

Harmony of Bible records of Paul’s conversion

By Mark Morgan | Harmonies , Paul

‘Who are you, Lord?’ Saul asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the voice replied. ‘Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.’ (Sweet Publishing / FreeBibleImages.org https://freebibleimages.org/illustrations/paul-conversion/ (Slide 6) License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license)

The conversion of Paul

Paul, the apostle of Jesus originally known as Saul, was converted from Judaism to Christianity by unexpectedly meeting Jesus. Luke describes the events in Acts 9 and also reports two occasions on which Paul himself described his conversion in Acts 22 and Acts 26. Paul also comments on the surrounding events in Galatians 1 & 2. The goal of this article is to put together these four records in chronological order. In this article, we present a harmony of Bible records of Paul’s conversion and the basis for the order chosen.

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