Apostle Paul بولس الرسول

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Paul was not one of the Twelve Apostles. Paul was the "Apostle to the Gentiles" (Romans 11:13, Galatians 2:8, 1 Timothy 2:7), being converted while on the road to Damascus by Jesus Himself. The Church remembers St. Paul together with St. Peter on June 29.
Life
Named Saul at his birth in the city of Tarsus, the holy apostle was a son of the tribe of Benjamin. Saul became a Pharisee under Gamaliel, one of the chief Jewish Rabbis (Masters/Teachers) of the day. After his study under the great Rabbi, Saul became one of the chief persecutors of Christians. Present at the stoning of St Stephen (Acts 7: 58), Saul later found himself blinded by Jesus Himself on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-22). Sought out by the Apostle Ananias, Saul immediately repented and Ananias baptized him. Saul, soon after his conversion called Paul, was later named and numbered among the Apostles. The extent of Paul's preaching as he spread the Gospel went far and wide from Arabia to Spain, to both Jews and Gentiles. He was called the "Apostle to the Gentiles." Paul spent his new life in suffering and labor for Christ, establishing and organizing churches everywhere. He reached such a state of perfection that he was able to say to the Church at Galatia: "not I, but Christ lives in me" (Galatians 2:20). Like the Apostle Barnabas, Paul studied under Gamaliel.

The account of Paul's missionary journeys and the letters he wrote to the Churches he founded form an important part of the New Testament. St. Paul was martyred with the Apostle Peter under Nero by beheading.

Letters
The Church has canonized several of his epistles to the churches, including:

Romans
I & II Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
I & II Thessalonians
I & II Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
Modern scholarship has contested the authenticity of several of these letters. Hebrews in particular, whose authorship was disputed even in the early church, was most likely not written by St. Paul. However, the Church lectionary introduces readings from each of these epistles as "from the epistle of St. Paul to..." as the lessons and commentary by the Church Fathers edify the Faithful towards Salvation.

Feasts & Fasts
The life of St. Paul, his letters in particular, are celebrated in the Orthodox Church with annual feasts and fasts. Being one of the four seasonal fasts, the fast of Sts. Peter & Paul is the summer fast that begins nine days after Pentecost, and continues until their joint feast day of June 29.

Intercessions
St. Paul is the intercessor for, among others, voyagers by sea and homilists.

Hymns
Troparion (Tone 4)

First-enthroned of the apostles,
teachers of the universe:
Entreat the Master of all
to grant peace to the world,
and to our souls great mercy!
Kontakion (Tone 2)

O Lord, You have taken up to eternal rest
and to the enjoyment of Your blessings
the two divinely-inspired preachers, the leaders of the Apostles,
for You have accepted their labors and deaths as a sweet-smelling sacrifice,
for You alone know what lies in the hearts of men.
Kontakion (Tone 2)

Today Christ the Rock glorifies with highest honor
The rock of Faith and leader of the Apostles,
Together with Paul and the company of the twelve,
Whose memory we celebrate with eagerness of faith,
Giving glory to the one who gave glory to them!

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[SURNAMEDISRAEL]

THE OTHER SEVENTY APOSTLES ON NOTED IN THE SCRIPTURES IN THE BOOK OF LUKE 10TH CHAPTER VERSE 1 and also noted in verse 17 of Luke 10TH CHAPTER SIR.

[SatanStartedIslam]

@themeasuringrod - I observe and accept from Genesis to Revelations. So question me and lets all see just how ignorant you are about what the Holy Scriptures do say.

BTW, I haven't spoken "evil" words. Are you acting as the accuser Satan, accusing me? And purged out of what?

[themeasuringrod]

@SatanStartedIslam you call me ignorant and you follow who. Do you keep the Torah? I would suppose not since you are a Paul follower. If you are such a righteous man what part of the law do you keep? You come at the most high's servant with evil words soon you will be purged out. You better REPENT!!

[themeasuringrod]

@SatanStartedIslam you have to be in total agreement with the father. Paul of the tares was not. You better turn from your wicked ways or you will be purged out. You are following a man because you follow Paul who was and still is a forked tongue speaker. Repent the kingdom is at hand!!

[SatanStartedIslam]

@themeasuringrod - There is NO prophesy that any of Jesus' disciples would "stray" as you so ignorantly spewed. When it is written in Isaiah 8:16 of a prophesy that is clear His disciples would do "Bind up the testimony". And Jesus Himself confirmed the ALL of the Scriptures as 100% correct and absolute authority! (Luke 16:17, 24:44-45, Matt 5:18).

Most of the New Testament is composed of letters written by Paul, a Jew, who was commissioned to "reach" the Gentiles of the NON-Israeli people.

[SatanStartedIslam]

@themeasuringrod - You are another one that is as evil and as ignorant as the majority of the evil world.

Verse 19 of John 21 tells exactly why Jesus told him verse 15 thru 18. Verse 19 is clear Peter was NOT going to be murdered. Peter lived a full life and died an old man in Jerusalem with his family just as Moses had died a full life of 120 years with his family just as God intended for all mankind (Genesis 6:3, Deut 34:7). That is a servant glorifying, (glorify: full of ) The God.

[themeasuringrod]

@SURNAMEDISRAEL Can you show me were there were 70 more Apostles?

[themeasuringrod]

@TheTaberLion John 21:18Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

Yehshua told Peter he would follow someone else and guess who that was Paul.

Most dont know this fact but this is why Yehshua said feed my sheep because he knew he would stray from the fathers Law the Torah and he did.

[TheTaberLion]

@zigzag1239 - You're another ignorant propagandist eh (2 Peter 3:15-16) (laughing).

[TheTaberLion]

@Kingofsomething87 - (laughing) So we know you were just born ignorant, and obviously Peter says that you remain very ignorant!

The Apostle Paul sanctioned the Gospels as scripture (1Timothy 5:18). Here Paul quotes Deut 25:4 and Luke 10:7 and Matt 10:10. All are considered scripture.

Now notice and learn that the Apostle Peter designated ALL of Paul's epistles as Scripture! (2 Peter 3:15-16).

So does your ignorant ass believe that Peter got it all wrong? (laughing).