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The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, vol. 4: Palestinian Setting is devoted to a series of studies of those parts of the narrative of Acts that are specifically set in Palestine. The geographical, political, cultural, social, and religious aspects of first-century Jewish Palestine are all explored in order to throw light on Luke’s account of the Palestinian origins of early...
his Messiah and the leadership of its twelve phylarchs,20 should have placed its headquarters in Jerusalem. Despite the silence of Acts, we need not assume that there were no Christians outside Jerusalem until persecution first scattered members of the Jerusalem church to other parts of Palestine and elsewhere (Acts 8:1, 4, 31; 11:19). Many followers of Jesus no doubt remained in Galilee. From the very beginnings of the Jerusalem church pilgrims to Jerusalem will have become believers and taken the
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