2.58 Paul's Fate and Final Letters

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The final chapters of Acts are a rollicking adventure where Paul endures storms and shipwreck on his way to trial in Rome. Paul spends two years in Rome, insulting the local Jews to their faces. So abruptly ends the Book of Acts. In his letter to the Phillipians, Paul changes his mind about the afterlife. According to the 2nd letter to Timothy, Paul spends his last days embittered and abandoned. The Acts of Paul fabricates an account of Paul's life after Italy.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.4	Episode 2.58, Paul's fate and final letters.
0:26.7	In the last episode, James the just humiliated Paul by insisting that he apologised to the Jewish members of the Jesus clubs.
0:36.8	Paul's month went from bad to worse
0:39.0	when he was arrested by the Romans.
0:42.7	We left Paul on his way to Rome
0:45.0	to stand trial before the emperor
0:47.6	on ill-defined charges.
0:50.0	The final two chapters of Acts
0:52.4	describe Paul's voyage to Rome.
0:56.3	Our best guess is that that journey took place in the years, say, 59 to 60.
1:04.4	For a third time, the book of Acts slips into using first person we, rather than third-person they.
1:13.6	Like this.
1:15.5	Quote, Acts 27-1.
1:19.4	It was decided that we were to sail for Italy.
1:23.2	After we had sailed across the sea, that is off Cynissicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in
1:30.3	Lycaea. We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty of Nidus.
1:38.3	End quote.
1:39.3	Scholars don't know what to make of the we passages.
1:43.3	Almost all of Acts is written in the third person.
1:48.0	The wee passages are a tiny proportion of the whole.
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