One on the Aegean side and one on the Adriatic side so that it served as one of the
to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry in order to make my own people jealous, and
For Paul, Gentile male circumcision was therefore an affront to God's
who had redeemed the Israelites from bondage in Egypt, given the Israelites the law, and sent
positive response of Gentiles to the preaching of this Jewish-Christian missionary?
Paul was writing in the thick of it, before all Jewish Christians were equally convinced that non-Jews could be Christians. He saw it as his own ...
with the Jewish Christian church leaders to discuss Paul's mission to Gentiles.
The sermon Paul preached in Acts 13:16-41 offered OT Davidic hope equally
Paul's role as a missionary is captured by the words Jesus spoke to him on the Damascus Road according to Acts 26:18: “…to open their eyes, so that they may turn
All of the building blocks of Paul's gospel are quarried from Jewish tradition.