tarsus

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This wasn’t really the plan, any more than Saul of Tarsus planned to become Paul the Apostle on the road to Damascus.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

Bruce includes an excerpt from the Apocalypse of Paul, an apocryphal third-century text that narrates a Revelation-style reverie experienced by Paul of Tarsus.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

The courthouse in the southern Turkish city of Tarsus is not big enough to hold them all, but hundreds of supporters massed outside as the first hearing got under way on Friday.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2015

Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus had no more electrifying revelation.

From Time • Oct. 9, 2013

The enthusiastic welcome in Tarsus matched others along his route.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby