About the year 1 of the Christian Era, a boy was born to Jewish parents in Tarsus, the chief city of Cilicia, where the family seems to have been establisehd for a long time. Four or five years earlier another boy had been born in Bethlehem of Judea. In those days no one would have ventured to suggest that there woud have been any connection between the two boys, yet it was so destined that they should occupy the reltionship of servant and Master. In his later years, Saul, the boy of Tarsus, often spoke of himself as the servant, or more correctly, the slave of Jesus, the boy of Bethlehem.