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Before his conversion, Paul was known as Saul and was "a Pharisee of Pharisees", who "intensely persecuted" the followers of Jesus. Paul describes his life before conversion in his Epistle to the Galatians: For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
This account of persecution is part of a general theme of anti-Christian persecution by both Romans and Jews, one that starts with the Pharisee rejection of Jesus's ministry, the cleansing of the Temple, and continues on with his trial before the High Priest, his crucifixion, and the Pharisees' refusal to accept him as the Jewish messiah.
Eusebius states that Paul was killed during the Neronian Persecution [198] and, quoting from Dionysius of Corinth, argues that Peter and Paul were martyred "at the same time". [199] This is also reported by Sulpicius Severus , who claimed Peter was crucified while Paul was beheaded. [ 200 ]
The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian ... Paul begins a listing of his own sufferings after conversion in 2 ...
Paul the Apostle, a Pharisee Jew, who had persecuted the early Christians of the Roman Province of Judea, converted c. 33 –36 [2] [3] [4] and began to proselytize among the Gentiles. According to Paul, Gentile converts could be allowed exemption from Jewish commandments, arguing that all are justified by their faith in Jesus.
Paul in Syria and Cilicia (Tarsus) Acts 9,28–30 ~ 40 Founding of the church in Rome, 'Christians' as a separate group in Antioch Acts11,26 ~ 40–50 Emergence of pre-Pauline traditions - ~ 42 Paul joins Antioch Acts 11,25–26 43/44 Persecution under Agrippa I, Peter leaves Jerusalem and James becomes leader of the church Acts 12,1–4.17
Peter and Paul, depicted in a 4th century etching with their names in Latin and the Chi-Rho. The Acts of the Apostles relates a fallout between Paul and Barnabas soon after the Council of Jerusalem, but gives the reason as the fitness of John Mark to join Paul's mission (Acts 15:36–40). Acts also describes the time when Peter went to the ...
The great persecution fell upon the Christians in Persia about the year 340. Though the religious motives were never unrelated, the primary cause of the persecution was political. It was about 315 that an ill-advised letter from the Christian emperor Constantine to his Persian counterpart Shapur II probably triggered the beginnings of an ...