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The persecution of Christians in the New Testament is an important part ... sparking a "severe persecution against the church in Jerusalem" (8:1). 8:3, 9:2: Saul ...
Before his conversion, Paul was known as Saul and was "a Pharisee of Pharisees", who "intensely persecuted" the followers of Jesus. Paul describes his life before conversion in his Epistle to the Galatians: For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
Paul declared that "Christ is the end of the law", [373] exalted the Christian church as the body of Christ, and depicted the world outside the Church as under judgment. [46] Paul's writings include the earliest reference to the "Lord's Supper", [ 374 ] a rite traditionally identified as the Christian communion or Eucharist .
The persecution of al-Hakim and the demolition of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre prompted Pope Sergius IV to issue a call for soldiers to expel the Muslims from the Holy Land, while European Christians engaged in a retaliatory persecution of Jews, whom they conjectured were in some way responsible for al-Hakim's actions. [130]
Founding of the church in Rome, 'Christians' as a separate group in Antioch Acts11,26 ~ 40–50 Emergence of pre-Pauline traditions - ~ 42 Paul joins Antioch Acts 11,25–26 43/44 Persecution under Agrippa I, Peter leaves Jerusalem and James becomes leader of the church Acts 12,1–4.17 ~ 45–47 1st missionary journey Acts 13–14 48
The writer of Acts introduces Saul, later the Apostle Paul, as an active witness of Stephen's death in Acts 7:58, and confirmed his approval in Acts 8:1a. Reuben Torrey, in his Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, suggests that this clause [i.e. verse 8:1a] "evidently belongs to the conclusion of the previous chapter".
Acts 9 is the ninth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records Saul's conversion and the works of Saint Peter. [1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.
In Paul's thinking, instead of humanity divided as "Israel and the nations" which is the classic understanding of Judaism, we have "Israel after the flesh" (i.e., the Jewish people), non-Jews whom he calls "the nations," (i.e., Gentiles) and a new people called "the church of God" made of all those whom he designates as "in Christ" (1 Corinthians 10:32).