“And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.”
'And I answered, Who are you, Lord? And He said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting' — Jesus self-identifies as 'the Nazarene,' a title of scorn in Jewish polemic, yet the One Paul now acknowledges as 'Lord.' The equation of persecuting believers with persecuting Jesus articulates the mystical unity of Christ and church.
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