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Focus on the First Century, Part 17

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  • First persecution of the church
    • Happened soon after Pentecost
    • Result of Stephen’s stoning
    • Saul eager participant
    • Church was scattered
    • Went everywhere preaching Christ
    • Acts 8:1-8
    • Conversion of Saul
      • Completes the circuit on the Diaspora
      • Paul appointed apostle to the Gentiles
      • Jews are everywhere
      • Paul not first to teach the Gentiles
      • Followed by Christians in some places
      • Paul comes with apostolic authority
      • Acts 11:19-26
      • Acts 13:13-52 – Paul preaches to the Gentiles
      • The religious sects of the Jews
        • A Jew is not a Jew is not a Jew is not …
          • Just being a Jew was not the complete picture
          • Different divisions of beliefs and practices
          • The two major divisions were at odds
          • Unity was only attained via outside pressure
          • The Pharisees
            • “Separated ones”
              • Possibly derogatory term
              • Called themselves “great”
              • Embraced the name “Pharisees” after a time
              • Began in the early Hasmonean Dynasty
                • John Hyrcanus was a Pharisee
                • Lead to the civil war under Alexander Jannaeus
                • Pharisees made gains under Alexandra Salome
                • What did the Pharisees believe?
                  • High degree of dedication to law and prophets
                  • Held oral traditions as equally important
                    • Matthew 15:1-20 – Jesus rebukes their tradition
                    • Matthew 23:25-26
                    • I Peter 2:4-5 – Our purity is internal, not external.
                    • Interpretations by noted rabbis
                    • Given and relayed by word of mouth
                    • Committed to writing around 70 AD and after
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