prophecy of Joel 2:28–32 was being fulfilled that day, and 3000 new converts responded to the message. Certainly, a pressing question for them as Jews, who had now found their Messiah, would have been how to relate traditional beliefs and practices to their understanding of Jesus, revealed as the Messiah. Several factors seem most influential: their temple practices, the replacement role of the synagogue, the writings of the apostle Paul, and the music of the Psalms in the early centuries.