Huggy, the story told in Acts ( a book of historical fiction, btw) is that "Paul" was on his way to Damascus.
Damascus was a Greco-Roman city, a long way from Jerusalem, and part of the so-called Decapolis which was a loose confederation of similar Greco-Roman towns under the aegis of the Roman governor of Syria. The notion that some smelly little jew from Jerusalem could go to another city in the Roman empire and kidnap Roman subjects to drag them as prisoners back to Jerusalem has always been extremely amusing. I imagine the local city magistrate would have made short work of "paul."
Quote:9 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
Acts
Damascus was a Greco-Roman city, a long way from Jerusalem, and part of the so-called Decapolis which was a loose confederation of similar Greco-Roman towns under the aegis of the Roman governor of Syria. The notion that some smelly little jew from Jerusalem could go to another city in the Roman empire and kidnap Roman subjects to drag them as prisoners back to Jerusalem has always been extremely amusing. I imagine the local city magistrate would have made short work of "paul."
