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In Philippians 2:25 [1] and Philemon 1:2, [2] Paul describes fellow Christians as "fellow soldiers" (in Greek, συστρατιώτῃ, sustratiōtē). [3] The image of a soldier is also used in 2 Timothy 2:3–4 [ 4 ] as a metaphor for courage, loyalty and dedication; [ 5 ] this is followed by the metaphor of an athlete , emphasising hard work.
Paul raiseth Eutychus to life, from Figures de la Bible, 1728. Eutychus / ˈ j uː t ɪ k ə s / (Greek: Εὔτυχος) was a young man (or a youth) of Troas tended to by St. Paul. Eutychus fell asleep due to the long nature of the discourse Paul was giving, fell from a window out of the three-story building, and died. [1]
Paul located Mount Sinai in Arabia in Galatians 4:24–25. [99] Paul asserted that he received the Gospel not from man, but directly by "the revelation of Jesus Christ". [100] He claimed almost total independence from the Jerusalem community [101] (possibly in the Cenacle), but agreed with it on the nature and content of the gospel. [102]
The following verse relates how "the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily" (Acts 19:20 ESV). [4] Simon Kistemaker sees these things as closely connected: "The city of Ephesus purged itself of bad literature by burning magic books and became the depository of sacred literature that made up the canon of the New Testament." [5]
Ananias of Damascus (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ n aɪ ə s / AN-ə-NY-əs; Ancient Greek: Ἀνανίας, romanized: Ananíās; Aramaic: ܚܢܢܝܐ, romanized: Ḥananyō; "favoured of the L ORD") was a disciple of Jesus in Damascus, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of Saul of Tarsus (who later was called Paul the Apostle ...
In 2 Timothy 1:16-18, Paul sends a greeting to the man’s household in Ephesus and refers to the help he showed Paul earlier in Ephesus. Timothy, who led the Ephesian church is familiar with these acts. [5] Paul's praise of Onesiphorus is significant because it was written shortly before Paul's death as a final encouragement to Timothy.
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Romans 16 is the sixteenth (and the final) chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It was authored by Paul the Apostle, while Paul was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD, [1] with the help of a secretary (), Tertius, who adds his own greeting in verse 22. [2]