Believe You Me

And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him. Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.-Acts 9:26-31***The Israelites knew that Paul (Saul) was a Pharisee, and a Roman citizen, and was born in Tarsus into the tribe of Benjamin, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 2nd wife Rachel, and Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin. Paul was known for persecuting and imprisoning Israelites throughout Jerusalem who believed Jesus, who had been crucified, buried in a tomb, and resurrected, to be the Christ, the Son of God. Some Israelites knew that Paul guarded the garments of a group of Israelites who stoned Stephen, an Israelite believer, to death, and some knew that Paul received permission from the high priest to journey to the synagogues in Damascus, Syria to find, bind and take to Jerusalem any Israelite believers he found. The Israelites in Jerusalem did not understand that during Paul's journey to Damascus, Paul and those with him saw a light from heaven flash around them, and Paul heard the voice of Jesus speaking to him, and Paul spoke to Jesus, and obeyed Jesus, and in Damascus Paul was baptized. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that in the synagogues in Damascus, Paul proclaimed the good news of Jesus the Christ to the non-believers among them. Many Israelites made plans to kill Paul. Several years thereafter, Paul returned to Jerusalem and found that the disciples of Jesus the Christ were still fearful and skeptical of Paul. However, Barnabas, an Israelite from the tribe of Jacob's 3rd born son Levi, gave an explanation about Paul's new life in Christ.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-31, 11:19-28:31, Romans 1:1-32, 11:1-36, 2 Corinthians 1:1-24, 11:1-33, Galatians 1:1-2:21, Philippians 1:1-30, 3:1-21

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assayed = epeirazen/peirazo/peira = attempt, to try, tempt

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