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In his Farewell meeting with the Church of Ephesus on his return to Jerusalem, Paul repeats a saying of Jesus not found in the four Gospels: Paul is on trial in Chapters for his belief in the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead, but also because he considers this as the fulfillment of the "hope in the promise made by God to our fathers. Chapters narrate Paul's fourth missionary journey through Malta to Rome. Paul arrives in Rome and spends two years there under house arrest preaching the Gospel.

The Holy Spirit is named 40 times in Acts, more than any other book of the Bible. Peter laid his hands and bestowed the Holy Spirit in Acts 8: The Holy Spirit directed Peter to accompany the emissaries sent by Cornelius The Holy Spirit called for Barnabas and Saul before they began the first missionary journey Paul also laid his hands and bestowed the Holy Spirit in Acts Antioch, Syria was an early home of Christianity after the dispersion, and especially after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD.

Indeed the followers of Jesus were first called Christians in Antioch Acts Followers of Jesus were also referred to as Nazarenes Acts Barnabas and Saul on the first missionary journey to Cyprus and Asia Minor appreciated that the Gospel of salvation be spoken first to the Jews but that the Gentiles were open to the message of Jesus Christ Acts The Council of Jerusalem resolved the important issue on Gentile converts - Peter and the Council supported Paul and Barnabas in allowing Gentile converts to become Christians without subjecting themselves to all the precepts of the Mosaic law.

This issue would continue to create dissension within the early Church, as we can see in reading Paul's Letters to the Galatians and Romans.

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The Council also served as the precedent for future Councils of the Christian Church. As Paul was directed to Rome by the Lord himself in Acts Paul fulfilled Christ's mission given in Luke In contrast to Jonah, who was running from the Lord and imperiled the safety of the ship, Paul was obedient to the Lord and saved the lives of all on board! There is a lesson here: Malta is an important aspect of the narrative, for the natives there representing the Gentiles were receptive to Paul's mission. Publius, the chief man of the island, became a convert and the first Bishop of Malta.

This is in contrast to the Jews of Rome, who, while individually may have been responsive to the Word, as a group rejected Paul's message. The climax occurs in Rome, when Paul, after continued rejection by the Jews This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven. Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know - 23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved. For the fact that a noteworthy miracle has taken place through them is apparent to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God. Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out as well.

Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

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But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3 and said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living. Yet God was with him, 10 and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

I also will remove you beyond Babylon. They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; 53 you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it. And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

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What prevents me from being baptized? Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus, 20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death; 25 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.

When he arrived, they brought him into the upper room; and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing all the tunics and garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them.

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And on the next day he got up and went away with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends. So I ask for what reason you have sent for me. Now then, we are all here present before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross. Then Peter answered, 47 "Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?

Then they asked him to stay on for a few days. These six brethren also went with me and we entered the man's house. And considerable numbers were brought to the Lord. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. And this took place in the reign of Claudius. Now it was during the days of Unleavened Bread.

And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.

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They kept saying, "It is his angel. And he said, "Report these things to James and the brethren. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there.

This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie. We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

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The original publication did not have verse markers, although the individual books were divided into relatively long chapters. And they were accompanying him to the ship. Even China, officially atheist and repressive of anything outside state control, counts 52 million Christians. The third volume of that first edition was published in , but was already being superseded by a second, revised edition of the entire work, [] greatly aided through the advice and assistance of then Yale doctoral candidate Grant Hardy , Dr. Text from the current LDS edition without footnotes.

Nothing like that exists in Japan. No wonder Xavier and his Japanese hosts misunderstood each other. Slaughter is as old as history — older. Individuals, tribesmen, nations have always massacred rivals and enemies without agonizing over the morality of it. Jews, precursors of Christians, moralized slaughter. It was what Good had to do to Evil.

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Christians, themselves survivors of atrocious persecutions under pagan Rome, inherited and honed the ethic whereby slaughter of the enemies of the one true God was a blessed undertaking. In his place there arose the missionary. The missionaries who followed Xavier fared better than he did.

Their connections with Portuguese merchants helped. Japan then was a chaos of petty fiefdoms, each at war with its neighbors. Turning Christian, the shrewder feudal lords discovered, brought worldly benefits. Foreign trade was one; foreign guns another.

His territory included a wretched little village called Nagasaki, whose true worth was soon revealed — it possessed a magnificent harbor. Omura grew rich and powerful beyond his hopes. Was this not Christianity proving its power? Beset by enemies, he appealed to the Portuguese for military help, which came, but with a price: No sooner spoken than done. The year was Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines were burned or demolished throughout the Omura domain; 60, subjects were baptized, by force if necessary.

The following decade saw Christianity take root. Daimyo, with whatever mix of religious and venal motives, were converting; so, voluntarily more often than not, were their subjects. By , there were churches serving an estimated , Christians. Missionaries who foresaw a Christian Japan were over-confident, perhaps, but not stupidly so. It could have happened. Success turned the foreigners into swaggerers. At Nagasaki he had 26 Christians, 17 of them Japanese, crucified.