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Paul saw Jesus as Lord (kyrios), the true messiah and the Son of God, who was promised by God beforehand, through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. While being a biological descendant from David ("according to the flesh"), [ 278 ] he was declared to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead.
The oldest known images of some of the apostles are in the catacombs of St Tecla in Rome, dated to the 4th century. [8] The frescoes include Paul, Peter, John and Andrew, serving as a funerary devotional image, to protect the occupants of the tomb. [ 8 ]
Martyrdom of Paul by Pieter Coecke van Aelst. Martyrdom of Paul may refer to: Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Paul, a section of the Acts of Paul; The death of Paul the Apostle; Martyrdom of St. Paul, a 1556 painting by Jacopo Tintoretto; Martyrdom of Paul, a c. 1529-1535 drawing by Pieter Coecke van Aelst
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and the "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early ...
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 ...
The Apocalypse of Paul (Apocalypsis Pauli, literally "Revelation of Paul"; more commonly known in the Latin tradition as the Visio Pauli or Visio Sancti Pauli) is a fourth-century non-canonical apocalypse and part of the New Testament apocrypha. The full original Greek version of the Apocalypse of Paul is lost, although fragmentary versions ...
Artistic depiction of Paul the Apostle (Vincenzo Gemito, 1917).Paul was responsible for bringing Christianity to Ephesus, Corinth, Philippi, and Thessalonica. [3] [better source needed] According to Larry Hurtado, "Paul saw Jesus' resurrection as ushering in the eschatological time foretold by biblical prophets in which the pagan 'Gentile' nations would turn from their idols and embrace the ...
St. Paul holds both the sword and closed book. The sword is depicted here to signify St. Paul's status as a martyr, while the book represents the New Testament letters he wrote while he was imprisoned. [3] The Bible, the living word of God, is depicted here as a representation of the Christian law and source to salvation. [3]