Was Ananias who baptized Paul a lay-man (Common man)?
If Ananias had been a lay-man, why did our Lord ask Saul to go to Ananias? Were there no other believers near by or on the way to that Street? How could a lay-man lay hands on another lay- man? Some say that he was a lay-man either because of the lack of knowledge or because they purposely hide the facts. Let us see what the scholars say about Ananias. Let us start with the Protestant interpreter Dummalow. “Probably Head of the Christian body at Damascus. Later tradition makes him one of the seven (referred in Acts 6:6) consecrated Bishop of Damascus by Peter and Andrew, and was martyred. But if you try to find this name you cannot find Ananias (Hananiya) in the list. In the Bible many people had an initial name and later had a different name following their baptism (Peter, Paul etc…). One of the Greek names mentioned in that list may be of Ananias. Names of the 70 disciples which our Lord sent (as mentioned in Luke 10:1) are mentioned in the book called “Ousar-rosa”. The third in th
