Paul’s late commissioning no doubt made him vulnerable to attacks from those who were trying to discredit him as an apostle. False apostles had also tried to infiltrate the church at Ephesus. In this they failed. We know of their attempt because Jesus spoke about it through the revelation he gave to the apostle John, recorded in the book of Revelation. In a letter Jesus dictated to the church at Ephesus, he praised the Ephesian Christians for thwarting these false apostles: “I know your works, your