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Many people today have a negative view of Paul. He is accused of not being a faithful follower of Jesus because of his failure to refer much to Christ’s early life and teaching in his letters. He is seen as a freelance who did his own thing with the Christian faith, changing Jesus’ good ideas and introducing bad ones, especially about women and sex. He is also often thought to be arrogant and...

He must have known something, probably quite a lot, about Jesus, especially if he had been engaged in furious debate with people like Stephen. He will have known that Jesus was a popular religious leader, with a following in Galilee, who claimed that God’s deliverance of his people, promised in the Old Testament, was coming in and through his ministry. He will have known of Jesus’ supposed miracles of healing and exorcism: they were acclaimed by his followers
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