Jesus is, "meek" and"lowly in heart." Paul and Peter are the major Christian leaders.
Do Jesus and Paul really differ? Is Paul's teaching an unreliable addendum to what Jesus believed and taught?
We read the words of Jesus recorded in Acts 26:16. Thee account is a rehearsal of Paul's encounter with Jesus Christ on the Damascus Road. Jesus says to Paul, "I have appeared to you for this purpose: to make you...a witness both of the things you have seen, and of the things which I will yet reveal to you" (Acts 26:16). At the time of Paul's conversion, he fell to the ground, a bright light shone around him, and Paul said, "Who art thou, Lord?" And the Lord said, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting" (Acts 26:15). And then Jesus said, "Rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you...a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will yet reveal to you." Jesus said those words.
Jesus ssays that Paul was chosen to bear witness to Him, and to preach the Gospel of Christ to the nations. Paul certainly never had any idea that he was preaching anything except what Jesus authorized him to preach! No where in all the writings of Paul is there a single passage that would lead us to believe that his gospel differs from the gospel of Christ.
Both Paul and Jesus, for example, taught the reality of Satan, and that evil spirits war against the souls of human beings. (Compare Matt. 4:1-11, Luke 22:31-34, and Ephesians 6:11-20). Jesus and Paul both speak of the devil as a real and active being.
Paul and Jesus taught about moral purity in the realm of sexual conduct. Paul said that "fornicators and adulterers God will judge" (Hebrews 13:4). Jesus said that there was adultery even in the repeated "glance of the eye" (Matthew 5:28).
Both Paul and Jesus preached the doctrine of love and forgiveness. (Compare Matthew 5:44 with Ephesians 4:32).
Both Paul and Jesus preached salvation through the blood which Jesus shed on the Cross. (Compare Matthew 26:28 with Ephesians 1:7).