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Was Paul the “second founder” of Christianity, striking off in directions Jesus never envisaged and teaching lessons Christ never endorsed? In this study Paul Barnett sets out to establish that, current theories aside, Paul was a true missionary of Jesus, authentically extending the Lord’s mission. Arguing that Paul’s own writings are uniquely supplemented by Luke’s contemporaneously written...

and the radical new level of opposition from the temple authorities.9 The entry into the church of priests of the temple appears to have provoked Stephen to vigorous preaching and disputing in the Hellenist synagogues. That is not all. Following the stoning of Stephen, Luke writes, “And Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem.… Saul was ravaging the church” (8:1, 3). Luke’s distinctive use of “And” from Acts 6:5 to Acts 8:3 joins
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