The Resurrections - worksheet 3

1 Corinthians 15:8-11 says 8and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born. 9For I am the

of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an , because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the of God I am what I am, and his to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the of God that was with me. 11Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

Paul describes to the Corinthian church how and in which order things unfolded on resurrection day and during the time after that.

In the previous episode we looked at the appearances of Jesus. Now, in this episode, Paul attaches his own miraculous experience of seeing Jesus as described in Acts 9:1-19 to his letter to the Corinthian church.


Q1 What was abnormal in the appaerance of Jesus to Paul on the road to Damascus. Why does he comppare this event with an abnormal birth (verse 8)?

Q2 Why did Paul think that he does not deserve the title and ministry of an apostle (verse 9)?

Q3 How did Paul recieve forgiveness and what happened in the further course of his life (verses 10-11)?