In the following chapters I intend to draw a portrait of each of these people, based on a critical analysis of our earliest and best sources, commenting on their relationship with Jesus and other relevant topics. Even Paul—the ek troma, or “one born out of due season,” as he puts it himself in dramatic fashion (1 Cor. 15:8)—made bold to claim to be an eyewitness of the risen Lord, by no small miracle on the road to Damascus. And at the end of the day it is this fact, having seen the risen Lord, that