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The Pauline Circle Paul, writes F. F. Bruce, attracted friends around him as a magnet attracts iron filings. The New Testament evidence for Paul’s wide circle of friends is plentiful, both in Paul’s own writings and in the Book of Acts. In this book, Bruce, who is widely known as one of today’s foremost Pauline scholars, looks at several of Paul’s closest friends and associates as well as several...

of Mary, Zechariah and Simeon, the overcrowded inn at Bethlehem, the angelic appearance to the shepherds, the shepherds’ visit to the infant Saviour, his presentation in the temple, and his presence in the temple twelve years later at Passovertide. In the passion and resurrection narrative at the end of the Gospel we have the Lord’s hearing before Herod Antipas, his prayer for the forgiveness of his executioners, his words of assurance to the penitent robber, his appearance alive from the dead to
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