Ananias
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A disciple in Damascus, to whom the conversion of Saul of Tarsus was made known in a vision, and who was the instrument of his physical and spiritual restoration, and the means of introducing him to the other Christians in Damascus (Acts 9:10–19). Paul mentions him with a large favor in his account of his conversion spoken at Jerusalem (Acts 22:12–16), where we are told that Ananias was held in high respect by all the Jews in Damascus, on account of his strict legal piety. No mention is made of him in Paul’s address before Agrippa in Caesarea (Acts 26). In late tradition, he is placed on the list of the seventy disciples of Jesus and represented as bishop of Damascus, and as having died a martyr’s death. More
Edwards, D. M. “Ananias.” Ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised 1979–1988: 120. Print.
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