Apostle paul in jail images

Apostle Paul spent his last years in prison, years that saw the rejection of his collection, dismissal by his brethren, his standing trial and beheading by Rome. He was transported by cavalry and kept under Roman guard to be protected from assassins, the High Priest and even the brethren he deemed “False.” His message was largely in dispute or rejected outright, and he was not accepted as a legitimate Apostle.

Yet his Church legacy would later read as nothing short of miraculous and heroic.

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Should we be suspicious?

Paul’s final journey to Jerusalem sometime in the late 50s, 1st Century, as documented in his Letters and in the Book of Acts, was to deliver a collection to his fellow Apostles, including the leader of the church, James the brother of Jesus.

Scholars estimate that the collection took five to seven years and cost him a lot of grief. Once Paul and his Gentile followers arrived in Jerusalem, James, rather than embrace and accept the collection, asked him to take the mon