THE APOSTLE

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Dialogue and other Scripture quotations are based on the following Bibles and New Testaments: The Jerusalem Bible, copyright © 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd. and Doubleday & Co., a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Reprinted by permission; The New English Bible, Copyright © 1961 Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press; the Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971], Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved; J. B. Phillips: The New Testament in Modern English, revised editions © J. B. Phillips, 1958, 1960, 1972, permission of Macmillan Publishing Co. and Collins Publishers; Good News Bible, © 1966, 1971, 1976, The American Bible Society; the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com; and the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible. The author has added italics to Scripture quotations for emphasis.

LCCN 2011938162

ISBN 978-0-7814-0573-7

eISBN 978-1-4347-0324-8

© 1969, 2012 John Pollock

First edition published by Hodder & Stoughton (British edition) and Doubleday (US edition) in 1969 © John Pollock.

The Team: Richard Herkes, Amy Konyndyk, Jack Campbell, Karen Athen

Cover Design: Nick Lee

Cover Photo: Shutterstock

Third Edition 2012

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: THE PURSUER PURSUED

Map: Paul’s Early Travels

1. From the Land of Black Tents

2. Stephen

3. Damascus Road

4. A Man Surprised

5. Arabia and After

6. Hidden Years

PART TWO: TO THE GENTILES

Map: Paul’s First Missionary Journey

7. The New Era

8. Aphrodite’s Island

9. Into Galatia

10. Progress and Persecution

11. Stoned

12. “I Opposed Him to His Face”

13. Dear Idiots of Galatia

14. A Fresh Start

15. Across to Europe

16. Flogged in Philippi

17. Thrown Out of Thessalonica

18. The Fugitive

19. Laughter in Athens

PART THREE: LEAST OF THE APOSTLES

Map: Paul’s Second Missionary Journey

20. City of Unbridled Love

21. The House of Gaius

22. Gallio’s Decision

23. A School at Ephesus

24. The Name

25. The ...