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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...

The situation is eerily similar to Peter’s encounter with Simon the magician described in the eighth chapter of the book of Acts, right down to the stern warning that Paul issues to the man: “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?” (Acts 13:10). Paul doesn’t mince words when he calls the magician, whose name Bar-Jesus means “son of Jesus,” a “son of the devil.” Paul also announces: “And
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