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In Paul’s Shadow D. Edmond Hiebert presents the personalities around Paul. With the exception of Jesus Christ, no one figures more prominently in the pages of the New Testament than the Apostle Paul. Author of thirteen New Testament books and a central figure in the book of Acts, Paul was the individual most responsible for the spread of the gospel in the first century. Yet he was not alone in...

Acts 9:10–19; 22:12–16 Ananias of Damascus has the distinction of being Paul’s first Christian friend and assistant. We hear of him only in connection with one crucial event in Paul’s life. On the third day of Saul’s fasting and heart-searching prayer which followed his arrest by the Lord on the Damascus road, Christ sent Ananias as His apostle to the future Apostle to the Gentiles. Ananias appeared suddenly in that crisis hour to render a vital service to Saul of Tarsus and
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