Paul's "persecution" of the early Christians?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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 John 18:10 "Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck  the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear." Again and as expected you do not know what is in the Bible, so anything you say about it and I mean anything can't be trusted one bit.

 You are wrong about the Bible being a fairy tale, but all the Bibles I'm aware of do present the same stories more or less the same. However a paraphrased Bible is not translated from the oldest and best transcripts, they are written from the existing translations to make reading easier. Well of coarse they do id they were written in the oldest English few would be able to understand what they are reading. The NASB is translated out of the oldest and best text we have, most if not all comes from the Hebrew and Greek and they used the Latin too, this combination gives use the best chance at an accurate translation. Your lack of Biblical knowledge just makes conversations with you so hard, that and your arrogant nature.  

  GC

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Good point about Peter being the slasher but I'm more of a Matthew guy than a John guy.

The fairy tale says in Matthew 26:51 (KJV) = "51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear."

That version is repeated in Mark 14:47 (KJV) = "47 And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear."

And Luke 22:50 (KJV) = "50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear."

As you pointed out in John 18:10 (KJV) = "10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus."

So in all four versions the victim was one of the high priest's lackeys.

John names the victim but it's a throwaway name that's not related to anyone in the Bible.

Three of the Gospels say that a bystander whipped out a sword a sliced off the ear.  Luke and John said that it was the right ear.  John said Peter was the perp. 

So what's one of the points that the story is telling?

Consider Exodus 15:26 (KJV) =  "And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee."

The servant may not have heard Yeshua's message before with his useless ear but after getting it cut off and restored I would bet that he became a very attentive listener.  And notice that Yeshua became the Lord that healed, which indicates that he forgave the servant's sins.  That showed that Yeshua had the power to forgive sins as mentioned in Matthew 9:6 and elsewhere.  The servant didn't receive additional punishment.

So what's the significance of the right ear?

Remember the ritual Aaron did in Leviticus 14:14 (KJV) = "And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:"

Now while the story doesn't mention the right thumb or the right big toe it does mention the bloody right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, which is what happened to the servant.

That's how you tie one story to another one.  One story might set the scene and another story will show the application.

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Did you know that trees can talk just like snakes and donkeys?  They also like to have a king to rule over them.

Judges 9:1-15 (CEV) = 
8 Once the trees searched
    for someone to be king;
they asked the olive tree,
    “Will you be our king?”
9 But the olive tree replied,
“My oil brings honor
    to people and gods.
I won’t stop making oil,
just to have my branches wave
    above the other trees.”
10 Then they asked the fig tree,
    “Will you be our king?”
11 But the fig tree replied,
“I won’t stop growing
    my delicious fruit,
just to have my branches wave
    above the other trees.”
12 Next they asked the grape vine,
    “Will you be our king?”
13 But the grape vine replied,
“My wine brings cheer
    to people and gods.
I won’t stop making wine,
just to have my branches wave
    above the other trees.”
14 Finally, they went
to the thornbush and asked,
    “Will you be our king?”
15 The thornbush replied,
“If you really want me
    to be your king,
then come into my shade
    and I will protect you.
But if you’re deceiving me,
    I’ll start a fire
that will spread out and destroy
    the cedars of Lebanon.”

  Surely you do not believe that was a real event, if so I can't help believe you understand little from the scriptures. It was a story told as a curse and God upheld the curse on the men it was pronounced. Justice was served. Now explain what that story has to do with proving God was the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. I'm going to say this one last time to you, the serpent was not a snake, it had legs and snakes do not have usable legs. If you mention this again I'm going to take it that you really do not care acting stupid.

GC

While we all have our faults the only one being stupid on this thread is you.  You believe in an ancient ethnocentric Middle Eastern Jewish deity named Yahweh and in an imaginary Jewish zombie with the alias of Jesus who will save your soul and give you eternal life.  You're nuts.  

The talking snake or serpent in the story was the Egyptian pharaoh. Noah's flood is a war story, most likely about the Egyptian invasion and conquest of the Levant area.  Moses' exodus is about the Egyptian withdrawal from the Levant.  The biblical God character was simply the series of crazy men who ruled the dominant empire in the ancient Middle East and kept the Hebrews under their thumbs.  The last one bit the dust around 530 B.C. with the collapse of the Babylonian Empire.  He is never, ever, coming back.  

The Saul/Paul created the Jesus character as a way to sell his resurrection religion.  He even said that it was bull shit.  Later writers wrote prequels (the Gospels) to show why the Jesus character should be worshiped as a deity.  They also included some political acts by the three main rebels and wrote them as religious stories involving Paul's Jesus character.  

While there may have been various scraps of manuscripts floating around the area the Bible didn't exist in any form until a committee of story tellers, writers, and artists produced three master copies in Latin in the 690s to counter Uthman's Koran from the 640s.  Christianity existed from the First Century but it didn't have an unified written fairy tale until the 690s.

And despite all of the bull shit you can throw at the wall you simply can't produce an original legitimate Bible written before the 690s.  

And remember, even the Bible says that it's just a fairy tale written for entertainment purposes and that people shouldn't believe in Jewish fairy tales.