Acts Overview: Saul's Encounter with Jesus

Spoken Gospel

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 552 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Saul was breathing out threats and murder against the followers of Jesus—until Jesus met him on the road to Damascus. David and Christine explore how this story echoes both King Saul's pursuit of David and Elisha's surprising hospitality to enemy soldiers. Together, they uncover a stunning theme: God saves his people by showing kindness to his enemies.

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0:00.0	God is going to save his people by blinding and then being hospitable to their enemies.
0:12.0	God saves his people by showing kindness to his enemies.
0:15.9	Yeah, there you go.
0:18.3	Welcome to the Spoken Gospel podcast. Spoken Gospel is a ministry that's dedicated to speaking
0:24.1	the gospel out of every corner of Scripture. In Luke 24, Jesus told his disciples that every
0:30.0	part of the Bible is about him. In each episode, hosts David and Seth work through a passage
0:35.4	of Scripture to see how it's all about Jesus and his good news.
0:39.5	Let's jump in.
0:59.2	Well, welcome everyone to the spoken gospel podcast.
1:01.1	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:05.9	We are continuing our time in the book of Acts, which has been a lot of fun.
1:08.1	If you're just hopping in, what's been going on?
1:08.5	Come on.
1:14.8	Go back and listen to the rest of the Acts episodes because they've been super fun and you've gotten to meet some new voices, one of which has been Christine, who is with me today, and we will continue to talk about the book of Acts, and we're looking
1:19.5	at Saul. And so tell me, Christine, why Axe nine, Saul's name changes to Paul.
1:27.7	It doesn't?
1:29.8	Classic misnomer of his quote unquote conversion, which might be a misnomer.
1:35.3	Saul doesn't change his name.
1:37.0	Saul doesn't change his religion.
1:38.7	None of those are a thing.
1:40.8	Bye.
1:41.6	Bye.
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