Excerpt from Paul This period of harmony was abruptly terminated through the work of Stephen, a Jew of foreign birth and training, who laid emphasis upon the religious failure of Judaism, charging the Jewish people with rejecting Jesus and calling upon them to repent and turn to God. This fiery arraignment incensed the Jews and led to Stephen's execution under the forms of Jewish, but in violation of Roman, law. The hostility that his work called forth involved the believers of all Jerusalem fora time and drove them to ...
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Excerpt from Paul This period of harmony was abruptly terminated through the work of Stephen, a Jew of foreign birth and training, who laid emphasis upon the religious failure of Judaism, charging the Jewish people with rejecting Jesus and calling upon them to repent and turn to God. This fiery arraignment incensed the Jews and led to Stephen's execution under the forms of Jewish, but in violation of Roman, law. The hostility that his work called forth involved the believers of all Jerusalem fora time and drove them to seek refuge in cities at a safe distance from the capital. As they went forth, however, they were not silent, but proclaimed the gospel to the neighbors and acquaintances they made in their new homes. These were of course usually Jews, for Jews would ordinarily have social or religious inter course with no others, and the Jewish communities in Caesarea, J oppa, Lydda, and other towns were in this way reached. Occasionally a non-jewish proselyte was gained by this preaching, as in the case of Cornelius of Caesarea and the Ethiopian treasurer. Most important of all, the city of Samaria heard and welcomed the gospel, and Peter was sent there to complete the work begun by Philip. It was at this stage in the early history of the Christian movement, when it had just begun to spread beyond the limits of J udea and to come into contact with persons not of Jewish blood, that Paul made his appearance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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