True.    I noted what you wrote above as I read the books in the New Testament attributed to Paul, and learned that though a Roman citizen,.he was very knowledgeable about scripture.  That part of his story (of his knowledge of scripture and the conversion from persecuting to believing in Christ that Paul went through) were particularly compelling to me in my journey.  I read the books of the New Testament before going to the Old Testament books of Psalms, Daniel and Isaiah. Still, the connections between the actual events in Isaiah's prophecies and Paul's experiences and what I am living through each day as I read a different book, chapter by chapter, of the Bible each day, is compelling and interesting to me.