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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...

When Festus, the governor of Judea, calls an assembly in the audience hall in Caesarea so that King Agrippa II and Bernice can hear Paul’s case, the event is surrounded by much pomp and pageantry. The gathering even includes Roman military commanders and the important men of Caesarea. There’s much public curiosity about this Jew named Paul, a Roman citizen, who’s desired dead by his own people.
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