Consider what Paul wrote in his second letter to Timothy: “You have closely followed my teaching, my course of life,... the sort of things that happened to me in Antioch [expulsion from the city], in Iconium [the attempted pelting with stones], in Lystra [the stoning], the sort of persecutions I have borne; and yet out of them all the Lord delivered me. ” ​ — 2 Tim.
प्रेषितांची कृत्ये पुस्तकाच्या अहवालात असे स्पष्टपणे सांगितलेले नसले, तरी ते शक्य आहे. पौलाने तीमथ्याला लिहिलेल्या दुसऱ्‍या पत्रात काय म्हटले त्याकडे लक्ष द्या: “तू माझे शिक्षण, आचार,...