One could argue that he always knew his Lord, he just didn't know that the same was this Jesus he was persecuting. Jesus made that clear to him on the road to Damascus, long time ago.....
Same could be true of any Jewish person today, it's always possible. I once had this discussion with a Jewish person in rabbinical school & at some point she realized that this Jesus I spoke about could be the Messiah. I guess there are 2 versions of the Messiah in their tradition. Most of the time they speak of the Davic Messiah who is a victorious figure but she explained that there is also mention of what she called a "Machiac ben Yo-off. (or something like that) who is a more tragic figure, like Jesus
She charged me not to tell anyone that she said that though. I guess there is fear in their community about that.
One could argue that he always knew his Lord, he just didn't know that the same was this Jesus he was persecuting. Jesus made that clear to him on the road to Damascus, long time ago.....
Same could be true of any Jewish person today, it's always possible. I once had this discussion with a Jewish person in rabbinical school & at some point she realized that this Jesus I spoke about could be the Messiah. I guess there are 2 versions of the Messiah in their tradition. Most of the time they speak of the Davic Messiah who is a victorious figure but she explained that there is also mention of what she called a "Machiac ben Yo-off. (or something like that) who is a more tragic figure, like Jesus
She charged me not to tell anyone that she said that though. I guess there is fear in their community about that.