Chapter 1 SINCE THAT TIME The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached. (Luke 16:16) The year was A.D. 28, give or take a few. For a chosen people who hadn’t heard a word from God in four centuries, life was pretty good. The Jews had covered their insecurities with a blanket of sameness. The absence of a fresh encounter with God had them clutching to what they had left—the Law. Interesting, isn’t it? The Hebrew people
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