Paul makes clear that he was a Christian for three years before he
felt any need to go to Jerusalem to visit Peter and even when he was
there he hardly spoke to any of the other apostles. It would be
fascinating to know what on earth Paul preached in those 3 years before
he had met any of the disciples.
Galatians 1 also says that Paul spent just 15 days in Jerusalem where he
met only Peter and James, not one of the original disciples. If I was
spending a fortnight in Jerusalem in about 39 AD, I would certainly want
to speak to as many eyewitnesses of the life, death and resurrection of
Jesus as I could find, but it seems that the greatest evangelist in the
history of the Christian Church couldn't be asked. How strange.
Paul had so little interest in what the disciples had to say about
Jesus that he couldn't be bothered to talk to most of them, even when he
had made a special trip to Jerusalem.
Is it reasonable that there were women, disciples and all sorts of other
eywitnesses to the Resurrection and Paul never even thought of speaking
to them?
Perhaps these women and eyewitnesses never existed.
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