Now, we do know that on the Sabbath the apostles would go to the Jewish synagogues to preach about Christ to the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles (Acts 13:14; 13:42; 13:44; 16:33). But this evangelism was not the same as gathering together for the apostles’ teaching, the breaking of bread, and prayer—characteristics of early Christian worship (Acts 2:42). It also seems likely that the very first Jewish believers continued to observe many aspects of the law, including the Saturday Sabbath rest,11 but
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