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How is it that a first-generation Jewish messianic movement undertook a mission to the pagan world and rapidly achieved a momentum that would have a lasting and significant impact on world history? This momentous question has surprisingly eluded the concentrated focus of historians and New Testament scholars. Perhaps it is because the story of early Christian mission encompasses so much of the...

The Pentecost pilgrims are shaken when they hear Peter explain that Jesus, who had been crucified, was the Messiah, the promised Son of David, that he rose from the dead and that he is the Lord who poured out the Spirit of the last days. They were “cut to the heart” and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?” (Acts 2:37). Peter had begun his explanation with the declaration, directed to the “entire house of Israel,” that “this man, handed
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