Jesus told Paul on the way to Damascus Paul why do you persecute me? This led to Sauls conversion.
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It must have been under a year if you read the accounts of the events leading up to Paul's conversion in Acts. Paul was at the stoning of Stephen and then raised persecution against the Christians up until his conversion at Damascus.
Paul "saw" Jesus on the road to Damascus. (Acts 9:1-19)
There is no biblical record of Jesus ordaining Paul as an apostle himself on Mount Sinai. Paul's encounter with Jesus, leading to his conversion and call to apostleship, occurred on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-19). The location of Paul's ordination as an apostle is not specifically mentioned in the Bible.
There is no reason to believe that Paul lied about seeing Jesus. He did say that he had seen Jesus, last of all, but it appears that Paul had seen a vision or a dream in which he felt he had communicated with Jesus. Some scholars say that Paul believed that Peter, James, the twelve and the apostles, as well as the 500, had all only seen the risen Jesus in visions or dreams. Thus he equated his experience with that of the others.
Conversion of Paul - Bruegel - was created in 1567.
There are 12 apostles of Jesus, but you can say 13 if you count Paul as he is also refereed to as a apostle.
In the bible it says saul meets jesus on the road to Damascus, and is blinded.
King Saul and Jesus were not contemporaneous: Jesus died about 32 or 33AD but King Saul died about 1010BC. However, Paul the Apostle came from Tarsus and changed his name to 'Saul 'upon his conversion.
Paul was on his way to Damascus in Syria when he had is conversion.
The Conversion of Saint Paul - Caravaggio - was created in 1601.
Apart from their obvious roles as Messiah and Apostle, scholars have long debated the apparent mismatch between the teachings of Jesus and Paul. One normal way of stating it is that Jesus preached about God but Paul preached about Jesus. Or, Jesus announced the kingdom of God and Paul announced the Messiahship of Jesus. Also, Jesus called people to a simple gospel of repentance, belief, and the practice of the Sermon on the Mount while Paul developed a complex theology of justification by faith, something Jesus never mentioned. Some say that Jesus preached a wonderful universal message and that Paul scrunched it back into the small distorting framework of his Jewish, rabbinic mind. Others say that Jesus preached a pure Jewish message and that Paul falsified it by turning it into a Greek, philosophical and even anti-Jewish construct. In defense of Paul here, he thought of it this way: Jesus was the Composer and he was the conductor or Jesus was the Architect and he was the builder. Paul was explicitly honouring Jesus by not saying and doing the same things but by pointing people back to Jesus' own unique achievement.
Paul was not present at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Only one or two of His disciples were there when He was crucified, or at least that's all scripture tells us. Paul's only physical introduction to Christ was at his conversion on his way to Damascus. An Apostle was one who walked with Christ, among other requirements. All of His Apostles were chosen personally by Jesus. Paul's experience with Jesus on the road to Damascus was one element that qualified Paul for apostleship.