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Paul's Potential Pride Problem, Part 3 (TMF:2903)

Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Peace to Live By: Paul's Potential Pride Problem, Part 3 (TMF:2903) - Daniel Litton
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       Yet, Paul hadn’t approved of John Mark all along. This obviously raises some questions, and they are questions that we really cannot answer. But it goes to show that by this time in Paul’s writing to the Colossians that he was willing to correct within himself whatever incorrect behavior had taken place of his part, or incorrect assumptions regarding Mark. It shows that Paul himself wasn’t hardly perfect, and he wasn’t always correct in his own, personal deductions concerning things. No matter how highly we might think of him, he was a human. He was a Christian with flaws, and a Christian who had to correct himself at times. Now, Jesus who is called Justus we really don’t know anything about. Anything that could be remarked here would be mere speculation. Perhaps he took the name Justus because he did feel worthy to be called Jesus, or felt funny about it. Nonetheless, we do know what Paul states in the verse in that he was a Jewish man who had converted to Christianity.