in it, so objectionable that he sought strenuously to suppress it. To prevent misunderstanding, I must emphasize that his violent opposition was directed against some fellow Jews. We must realize that the “church” that drew the ire of this zealous Pharisee Saul was then still a new religious movement entirely within the Jewish community/tradition of the day. So, the concern of this devout Pharisee appears to have been to protect the religious integrity of his ancestral religion against what he regarded