it is specific enough to depict an actual congregation, its thinking and its problems, is indeed to be welcomed. Jewish Christianity is significant also because of the very nature of the Christian movement. Jesus was the Messiah foretold by Old Testament prophets, the son of David whose coming fulfilled specific promises made to that dynastic head. He came “not to destroy [the law], but to fulfil” (Matt. 5:17). He taught that His death was to serve as a ransom, fulfilling the typology of the Old