After Jesus ascended into heaven, Peter brought up an important issue: Judas was missing from the Apostles, their group was incomplete! Eventually, Matthias was chosen to take Judas’ place because he had followed Christ from the beginning of His Baptism until the time of Christ’s Ascension. After this event, Matthias was never heard from again.

Instead, it will oddly be St. Paul that we will repeatedly hear about, he who started out as a persecutor of Jesus and His followers. Don’t you think it’s ironic that the Risen Lord would appear to this man Saul and not Matthias or any of the other apostles of Christ.

It certainly must have seemed odd to Peter and the other followers, that they should find themselves before Paul who knew Him better than they, since Paul had never even met the historical Jesus and they, after all, knew Him as the Nazorean.

In the conversion of Saul to Paul, we can see that Christ is not tied to any one period or place, or people, but is always available to anyone in any historical period or place who turns to Him. Is it time you did so?