This is the third of a three-volume biographical commentary on the life and letters of Paul. Its highly informative pages cover the trials, travels, and travails of Paul throughout the last eleven years of his life. Rev. JC has once again dug into the scriptural texts and into various historical documents to enlighten you with the absorbing, and at times tense, even intriguing, events and experiences that confronted and challenged Paul up to his martyrdom.
In this third volume you will:
- Be at Paul's side while he is being beaten to death in the Jerusalem temple until the Romans stepped in to arrest and save him.
- Hear with Paul about the Jews' plot to assassinate him and be whisked off under the cover of darkness to safety in Caesarea.
- Stand with the prisoner Paul at his trials and listen to his defenses and testimonies about Jesus.
- Sail with Paul as a prisoner to Rome and en route experience the peril of a shipwreck on the island of Malta.
- Walk with Paul to see the sights of Rome before being placed under house arrest.
- Come to know the many visitors and house guests that were with Paul and the various circumstances that led to his writing four of his letters.
- Learn about the slow progress of Paul's trial before Caesar's supreme court and how it ended.
- Travel with Paul after his release during the years of his post-imprisonment missionary journeys when he wrote two of his pastoral letters.
- Sit with Paul in a dirty dungeon in Rome where he wrote his last letter before being martyred by Nero.