Parallels Between Jesus and Pauls Last Visit to Jerusalem

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Parallels Between Jesus and Pauls Last Visit to
Jerusalem

• Like Jesus, Paul traveled to Jerusalem with a
  group of his disciples.
• Like Jesus, Paul was opposed by hostile Jews who
  plotted against his life.
• Like Jesus, Paul made or received three
  successive predictions of his coming sufferings
  in Jerusalem, including being handed over to the
  Gentiles.
• Like Jesus, Paul had followers who tried to
  discourage him from going to Jerusalem and the
  fate that awaited him there.
• Like Jesus, Paul declared his readiness to lay
  down his life.

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Parallels Between Jesus and Pauls Last Visit to
Jerusalem

• Like Jesus, Paul was determined to complete his
  ministry and not be deterred.
• Like Jesus, Paul expressed his abandonment to the
  will of God.
• Like Jesus, Paul came to Jerusalem to give
  something.
• Like Jesus, Paul was unjustly arrested on the
  basis of a false accusation.
• Like Jesus, Paul alone is arrested, none of the
  other followers were.
• Like Jesus, Paul heard the mob crying out, Away
  with him!

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Parallels Between Jesus and Pauls Last Visit to
Jerusalem

• Like Jesus, the Roman officer handling Pauls
  case did not know his true identity.
• Like Jesus, Paul was associated with terrorists
  by Roman officials.
• Unlike Jesus, Paul would give a defense to the
  crowd and Roman officials. Jesus did not offer
  one.

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Ask permission to tell your story.
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And he said, Hear me, brethren and
fathers!Stephen in Acts 72
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Defense?p?????aapologia
A speech in defense, defend self, we get
apology and apologetics from this word.
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Acts 534 (NASB)

• But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the
  Law, respected by all the people, stood up in the
  Council and gave orders to put the men outside
  for a short time.

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Paul
Crowd
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What common ground did Paul establish with the
crowd?
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Establishcommon ground with people when you
share your before story.
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Acts 2216 (NASB)

• Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized,
  and wash away your sins, calling on His name.

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• Having gotten up, be baptized and wash away
  your sins, having previously called upon His
  Name.
• ---Greek scholar Kenneth Wuest

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Acts 929-30 (NASB)

• And he was talking and arguing with the
  Hellenistic Jews but they were attempting to put
  him to death. But when the brethren learned of
  it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent
  him away to Tarsus.

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Romans 93 (NASB)

• For I could wish that I myself were accursed,
  separated from Christ for the sake of my
  brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...