What did Paul admit in Acts 26 about his former persecution?
Paul admitted in Acts 26 that he had wreaked havoc among the Jewish followers of Jesus of Nazareth. He acknowledged causing utmost suffering, binding and imprisoning those who called on Christ's name, and working to remove from Israel anyone who recognized Jesus as Messiah.
Les explains that Paul's former persecution targeted Jewish followers of Jesus of Nazareth. Saul of Tarsus worked in the name of Judaism to totally remove from the nation of Israel anybody who had recognized Christ Jesus as the Messiah. Ananias knew the evil Saul had done to the saints at Jerusalem and that he had authority from the chief priests to bind and bring back in prison all that call on Jesus' name. In Acts 26, Paul readily admitted the havoc he had wreaked among those Jewish followers. Les notes the three accounts are in Acts 9, 22, and 26. He also connects this to Jesus' words that Saul would suffer for His name's sake, saying, 'what goes around comes around.'
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In Acts 26, does Paul tell his own story in the first person?
In Acts 26, Paul is personally rehearsing in the first person the story of his earlier life and persecution of believers.