b. One died for all How did Paul know that he was the object of Christ’s love? It was, he continues, because … one died for all (verse 14). Formerly, as a Pharisee and zealot, the crucified Jesus and his followers had been the object of Paul’s hatred.12 His words we are convinced (verse 14) indicate that a point was reached when he reversed his opinions. So far from viewing Christ as an object of hate because of his accursed heretic’s death on a tree, Paul concluded, instead, that he, Paul, was