Paul the Apostle

Early Christian apostle and missionary (c. AD 5 – c. 64/65)

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Updated 2026-08-13

He never met Jesus but built the religion anyway. A persecutor turned prophet after a blinding on the road to Damascus, he wrote the letters that became half the New Testament and carried Christianity out of Jerusalem into the wider world.

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Born Saul of Tarsus around 5 AD, he lived as a Pharisee and helped hunt down early followers of Jesus. On his way to arrest Christians in Damascus, he saw a bright light, heard Christ speak, went blind, and was later healed by Ananias—after which he was baptized and immediately began preaching that Jesus was the messiah. From the mid-40s to mid-50s AD he made three missionary journeys, founding Christian communities across Asia Minor and Europe and personally knowing Jesus's closest disciples and brother by the mid-30s AD. Fourteen New Testament books bear his name; seven are undisputed as his…

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As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.

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22 So Paul stood... and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects. 23 For while I was...

— Sermon on Mars Hill

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What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

— Romans, 3:3-8 -

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Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

— Romans 3:19-31

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For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. For I do not understand what I am doing. For I do not practice what I wish, but I do what I hate.

— Romans 7:14-20

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