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New Testament scholar N T Wright recently pushed back on the assumption that Jesus and the apostle Paul expected the world to ...

In Acts 26, the Apostle Paul stands before King Agrippa and offers his fifth defense of the gospel. But this isn’t just a ...

June 29 marks the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The New Testament, of course, portrays Peter as a Galilean Jew, a fisherman, who became an early disciple of Jesus.

The Apostle Paul is, next to Jesus, clearly the most intriguing figure of the 1st century of Christianity, and far better known than Jesus because he wrote all of those letters that we have [as ...

The Apostle Paul wrote in the book of Ephesians that, ... When Jesus was in the garden praying after the Last Supper and right before he was taken by the Roman soldiers, ...

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Roma, 67 AD. After the great fire that burnt a great part of the city, Emperor Nero points Paul, Jesus' apostle, as guilty of the fire, arresting him and taking him to Mamertine Prison.