Tag: Ananias

  • Who is this Saul, Apostle to the Gentiles?

    “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” Saul: a Jew of Some Reputation We are familiar with Saul the first King of Israel, ultimately killed in battle then replaced by David. – שָׁאוּל His Hebrew name šā’ûl means ‘desired,‘ however Saul of Tarsus was not the ‘hebrew of hebrews’ that any follower of The Way…

  • Damascus Road: Witness into all the World

    Witness from Jerusalem to Damascus Of all places the Apostles would not have ever thought the risen Christ would anoint yet another Apostle, a road to Damascus likely would have been the last place to come to mind. Jesus had led them to places beyond Galilee (now formally a part of Syria under the administration…

    Syria Cilicia Phoenice with Damascus as a road of witness into all the Roman world of the AD first century, including Cypress home to Barnabas son of encouragement to Paul
  • That’s Not Fair! Possessions and Community

    The Saga of Ananias and Saphira From a background of my own evangelical christian American thinking I had always squirmed with a certain sense of unfairness that Ananias and Saphira died instantly at Peter’s feet when the Apostle confronted them about a sale of THEIR OWN possessions. Wasn’t the profit from THEIR MONEY from a…

    Then Ananias, hearing these words, (C)fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things. Acts 5:5 painting of Ananias dead at the feet of Peter and John