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==The Holy Spirit calls him “Saul” before his first missionary trip==
==The Holy Spirit calls him “Saul” before his first missionary trip==


Acts 13:2 says, “While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, ‘Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.’” It would be odd for the third person of the Trinity to keep calling this man by his “persecutor” name if the second person of the Trinity had changed it to his “apostle” name four chapters earlier.
Acts 13:2 says,  
 
:''While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” <ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2016), Ac 13:2.</ref>
 
It would be odd for the Holy Spirit to keep calling this man by his “persecutor” name if Jesus had changed it to his “apostle” name four chapters earlier.


==After the conversion experience, he is called “Saul” 11 more times==
==After the conversion experience, he is called “Saul” 11 more times==