Bible Questions Answered:
What are the marks of the Lord Jesus, Paul spoke of?
Leonard K./ Birmingham, Alabama
Bible Answers:
The scripture to which you refer is, ...
Galatians 6:17 KJV
“From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks (Greek. Stigma: Scar of service.) of the Lord Jesus.”
Stigma, stigmata, mark or scar.
The Apostle Paul said that he had in his body the scars of (following and serving) the Lord Jesus.
II Corinthians 11:22-28 KJV
[22] Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
[23] Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
[24] Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
[25] Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
[26] In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
[27] In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
[28] Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Yes, the Apostle Paul, had in his body the “Marks of the Lord Jesus.”
And he was not alone....
Hebrews 11:36-40 KJV
[36] And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
[37] They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
[38] (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
[39] And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
[40] God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
