Jewish story, a story about a family of Jews. All of the writers of the New Testament (except Luke) were Jews. The first believers—thousands of them—who received the Holy Spirit on the Jewish feast of Pentecost in Acts 2 were Jews. Even a non-Christian Jewish author such as Dr. Flusser, who has studied the first-century faith of the Jewish people, recognized that Christianity is an outgrowth of the faith and hopes of Israel and that the first Christians were Jews. So if they were Jewish, how did
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