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“Come, follow me.” — Matthew 4:19
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What people say about the Bible and church history, checked against Scripture and the historical record.
The word appears only once in Hebrew and never as a proper name: this is how the confusion began.
Acts 13:9 uses both names at once, Saul and Paul. The change in usage is made by Luke, not Jesus.
