Who was Sosthenes in the Bible? [ BT // 053 ]

[@TraceyThompson-v5u]

Thank you. Clarity on Sosthenes and reading the Bible in general.

[@AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr]

Literally done the same thing and stumbled across your video!!!

[@StephenCastleberry]

Thank you for watching!

[@japan9169]

Same here

[@JamesLindauer-g3w]

Thank you brother! That was inspiring and informative. God bless you.

[@trudypope2113]

Thanks for this. I couldn't figure out how Sosthenes and Crispus could both be rulers of the synagogue but obviously when Crispus became a believer he could no longer be the ruler of the synagogue.

[@rickbarnes7745]

I'm beginning a preaching series on 1 Corinthians in my church and I appreciate your take on Sosthenes. I wonder if he left Corinth with Paul or met him later in Ephesus?

[@dougfox1899]

Hi Stephen, Thanks for the good advice. As I was looking over this passage I was seeing Sosthenes in a slightly different way. It could have been, that like Crispus, Sosthenese became a follower of Jesus as the Christ earlier. There seems to have been a plurality of leaders in the large city of Corinth. He and Paul were together when the Jews took Paul before Gallio, the Proconsul for a ruling. So Sosthenese was kind of in the wrong place at the wrong time. All God's children have the world turned against them when they embrace Christ. The fact that he was the chief elder (overseer) presiding over a local synagogue; a "ruler of a synagogue, an administrative officer, supervising the worship" (Abbott-Smith), i.e. the president ("chief") amongst other elders-overseers serving in a particular synagogue might have made the Jews attacking Paul especially mad. This is like when a leader of the opposition party, changes parties and goes over to the other side. Many might have felt betrayed by his conversion to Christianity, so with the Proconsul protecting Paul, Sosthenese was a target of opportunity. So a slightly different twist on the story. Keep up the good work! Doug

[@hadilee685]

I will be baptized in an Orthodox Church and Sosthenes happened to be remembered on the day I was born. He is traditionally known as one of the 70 disciples in Luke.

[@jamestheophilus7908]

Martin from india thanx

[@chrisbrockman6381]

Thanks Stephen!

[@StephenCastleberry]

Thanks, Chris!

[@conniecastleberry8360]

Wise beyond your years.

[@StephenCastleberry]

Thank you!