Who went to pray for Paul?
But God persuades him that Paul is going to be used to carry the gospel message to the Gentiles, and Ananias takes the risk and goes to pray for him to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to see again.
Ananias of Damascus (/ˌænəˈnaɪəs/ AN-ə-NY-əs; Ancient Greek: Ἀνανίας; Syriac: ܚܢܢܝܐ, romanized: Ḥananyō; Hebrew: חנניה, from Imperial Aramaic: 𐡇𐡍𐡍𐡉𐡄, romanized: Hananiah: "favoured of the LORD") was a disciple of Jesus at Damascus from Syria, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he ...
God had something to say to Ananias and there he was immediately available and ready to hear what God had to say to Him. God had a purpose for Ananias. He was to be used, as we've seen, to help Paul, this new Christian who had undergone such a dramatic life change, and whom God was to use mightily.
He said: "Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: `Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's. Tomorrow march down against them.
“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened.
The Church at Philippi Supports Paul
And when they heard that Paul was shackled in a Roman prison, they sent Epaphroditus (who many scholars believe was one of the pastors or elders of the church at Philippi) to “minister to my need” (Philippians 2:25).
Many believe that Saul, who would later be known as the apostle Paul, was saved when he saw Jesus on the road to Damascus in Acts 9:3-5. He was going to Damascus to persecute Christians but Jesus appeared to him along the way and he learned that he was actually persecuting the Messiah.
Ananias laid hand on Paul to pray for him to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Once he laid hands on Paul, he was immediately filled with the Holy Spirit and the scales fell off from his eyes and Paul was able to see physically.
Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, "Ananias!" "Yes, Lord," he answered. Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. hands on him to restore his sight."
Ananias and Sapphira may have been driven by earthly praise. Their gift may have not represented a sacrifice but a transaction. They simply exchanged money for the praise and admiration of others. And it is from this story we learn your giving should not be done for earthly praise.
Which prophet was slapped in the Bible?
' "So now the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The LORD has decreed disaster for you." Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face.
And Jehoshaphat feared: There was certainly a sense in which Jehoshaphat feared the great multitude coming against him. Yet the sense here is that he feared the LORD, and was more awed at the power and majesty of God than at the destructive force of his enemies.
Jehoshaphat stood before the community of Judah and Jerusalem in front of the new courtyard at the Temple of the LORD. He prayed, “O LORD, God of our ancestors, you alone are the God who is in heaven. You are ruler of all the kingdoms of the earth. You are powerful and mighty; no one can stand against you!
35 When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: “Release those men.” 36 The jailer told Paul, “The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace.”
Luke 6:12-13 The Passion Translation (TPT)
After leaving the synagogue, Jesus went into the high hills to spend the whole night in prayer to God.
Paul lived by faith.
And he would remind us that “the righteous live by faith” (Romans 1:17). Paul worked hard, served well, and preached passionately — but he lived by faith. Paul worked hard, served well, and preached passionately—but he lived by faith.
Phoebe is named as a Patron of Paul, meaning that she would have been financially contributing to Paul's mission. Junia is also mentioned. According to Bart Ehrman, Paul praises Junia as a prominent apostle who had been imprisoned for her labour. Junia is "the only female apostle named in the New Testament".
Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible went on to say that Junia is the “only woman called 'apostle' in the New Testament; she may have had a charge of some sort and may have been among the restricted leadership of the church.” That is, she was not an Apostle with a capital “A,” like the twelve disciples, but she was a ...
Who Is the Woman? Luke is the only evangelist to describe the one who anoints Jesus' feet as “a woman in the city, who was a sinner” (Lk 7:37). He uses the same word for sinner (h'amartōlos) to describe the woman and Peter (Lk 5:8).
In Second Timothy, a letter traditionally ascribed to Paul near the end of his life, where it is mentioned that "...for Demas, because he loved this world, he has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica." This has led to one commentator to describe Demas as 'Paul's Judas'.
Who baptized Paul?
After his conversion, Paul went to Damascus, where Acts 9 states he was healed of his blindness and baptized by Ananias of Damascus.
According to both sources, Saul/Paul was not a follower of Jesus and did not know him before his crucifixion. The narrative of the Book of Acts suggests Paul's conversion occurred 4–7 years after the crucifixion of Jesus.
The Lord told him, "Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight."
Let's make this short and sweet. God didn't change the apostle's name from Saul to Paul when the man from Tarsus became a Christian. That's a myth far too many Christians believe and, more unfortunately, far too many pastors have taught Christians to believe.
In the vision, “the Lord” tells Ananias to “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul. At this moment he is praying, and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight” (Acts 9:11-12).
