Les Feldick Bible Study

How did Saul's status and identity change after meeting Jesus?

After meeting Jesus, Saul was led by hand into Damascus because he could not see. For three days without sight, food, or water, he underwent a death, burial, and resurrection in his own life. He changed from a leading figure in Judaism to a lowly servant, becoming Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for the Gentiles.

Les explains that Saul's three days without sight, food, and water picture a death, burial, and resurrection in his own life. He was going from the big man in Judaism to that lowly servant, as Paul says in Ephesians chapter 3, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles. Just as Jonah was a changed man after three days and nights in the whale's belly, Saul now becomes Paul and goes primarily to the Gentiles. Saul was also unique: a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, and later we find he was a Roman citizen by birth.

Ephesians 3:1

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,