Paul’s epistles
are christian texts,
the older ones,
therefore when you read
the epistles to the Thessalonikians
to the Philippians
to the Corinthians,
to the Galatians,
to the Romans
you’re reading the history
itself
of the continuity
before
the Gospels
which were subsequent,
so bare in mind
that the New Testament
is not read
in chronological
order.