Young People of Scripture
Saul of Tarsus |
| “And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul” (Acts 7:58). |
| As a young man, Saul was one of the greatest persecutors of Christians. Later he said, “For ye have heard … how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it” (Galatians 1:13). He was of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of pure descent, born at Tarsus, a city of Cilicia, a fact which gave to him the privilege of Roman citizenship. He was a disciple of Gamaliel and a strict Pharisee. He is first introduced to us as a young man, by the name of Saul, at whose feet the witnesses who stoned Stephen, the first Christian martyr, laid their clothes. |
| After his conversion on the road to Damascus, he was so completely changed that he became at once as bold for Christ as before he had been a persecutor of Christ. He immediately preached in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God. He went on to become the Apostle Paul and to write a major part of the New Testament. |
| One great lesson we learn from Saul’s life is the power of God to change a person so completely that He can take the worst sinner and make them a great testimony and blessing. |
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