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This is the birth of the Church—the completion of the story of Jesus as manifested in the life of the early Church, Christ’s mystical body on Earth. Some highlights of this book include Jesus’ Ascension, the replacing of Judas; Pentecost; Peter’s primacy; the miracles of and the spread of the Gospel by the Apostles; growth of the first Christian community around Peter; Stephen, the first...

In the pivotal tenth chapter of the book of Acts, Luke describes a Gentile Pentecost that comes about as Peter is preaching the Gospel message to Cornelius and his household. Unlike his sermon to an all-Jewish audience on the day of Pentecost, this time Peter avoids any reference to Old Testament events or prophecy and instead focuses on factual events with which his Roman audience is familiar and easily can understand. Peter’s witness
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