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The first followers of Jesus were not drawn from the intellectual and social elite of their day, but rather from artisans, tax collectors, and the more disreputable members of society. Yet out of such seemingly insignificant beginnings, a seed was planted by his teaching, his cross, and his resurrection which was destined to spread its shade over the entire known world. What had begun as an...

There is nothing in Judaism or Hellenism to equal the final charge of Jesus at the end of Saint Matthew’s gospel to go ‘and teach all nations’.30 Judaism never produced a missionary like Saint Paul whose hurrying footsteps ‘in journeyings often’31 carried the good news of Jesus Christ right over the northern coasts of the eastern Mediterranean. But how? How did he manage to recommend his message to the people who listened to him? What sort of audience did he find? What sort of culture did he meet?
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