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SERGIUS PAULUS

(Gk. Sérgios Paúlos)

The proconsul of Cyprus who was converted when Paul visited the island on his first missionary journey (Acts 13:4-12; a.d. 47/48). He is described as an intelligent man who believed through Paul’s teaching and through the power displayed when Paul struck blind the Jewish sorcerer Bar-Jesus (or Elymas), an advisor to the proconsul who opposed Paul’s preaching. Though the Roman family name Sergius is well attested, attempts to identify this Sergius Paulus through inscriptional evidence have proven inconclusive.

Since the apostle is first called “Paulus” in Acts 13:9, some have suggested that the apostle took his Roman name from this first gentile convert. It is more likely that the similarity of names is a coincidence.

Bibliography. C. A. Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History. WUNT 49 (Tübingen, 1989).

Mark L. Strauss






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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