I will rescue you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ (Acts 26:12–18) To what extent this represents an imaginative expansion of the tradition is not clear. What we can say is that it agrees with Paul’s central claims: first, that he had a vision of Jesus; second, that
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