Third Sunday of Easter; 1 May 2022; Easter 3C (RCL); Acts 9:1-20; Psalm 30; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19.
Luke summarizes and compresses (and fictionalizes) the story of Paul’s conversion. Paul himself gives several accounts of it: in Galatians and in 2 Corinthians, both times as authorization for the gospel he preaches. But Luke catches the essential elements. The passage in John’s Gospel gives us something like a conversion story for Peter.
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