A folio ofPapyrus 46 (written c. AD 200), containing 2 Corinthians 11:33–12:9. This manuscript contains almost complete parts of the wholePauline epistles.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.[3]
"Though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor": From having the fullness of the Godhead in Him, for the sake of human being, Jesus had become human and was exposed to outward poverty, born of poor parents, had no place to lay His head, was ministered to by others, had nothing to bequeath His mother at His death, but had to commit her to the care of one of His disciples; fulfilled the prophecies of Him, that He should be "poor" and "low" (Psalms 41:1;Zechariah 9:9).[4]
"Next to his ministry of preaching to theGentiles, Paul's most important activity during his ministry was to collect money for the poor [believers] inJerusalem."[2] Paul confirms inGalatians 2:10 that this was a part of his ministry which he considered important and endorsed by the leaders of the church in Jerusalem.
^Millard, Alan (2006)."Authors, Books, and Readers in the Ancient World". In Rogerson, J.W.; Lieu, Judith M. (eds.).The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies. Oxford University Press. p. 558.ISBN978-0199254255.The historical narratives, the Gospels and Acts, are anonymous, the attributions to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John being first reported in the mid-second century by Irenaeus
Perkins, Pheme; Coogan, Michael D. (2010). Brettler, Marc Z.; Newsom, Carol (eds.).The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version. Oxford University Press. p. 1380.
