Tag: gentiles
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Friends, Romans, Brothers: Lend me your ears
An angel of the Lord summoned Jews from Joppa and Romans from Caesarea to hear Peter preach the Gospel for all. Acts 10: of Peter and the Romans in Caesarea In case you missed it, Peter’s Roman Centurion host has just bowed down to him when the Apostle approached the group of believers at his…
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Caesar’s Palace East welcomes PETRUS
Peter in Roman Sin City A background behind Caesar’s Palace in Judea Initially, a few decades before.. Caesarea is sixty some miles northwest of Jerusalem. Herod had expanded it to become one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire, which would later serve Rome as Judea’s capital. (Yes, it would later have a…
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Who is this Saul, Apostle to the Gentiles?
“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” Saul: a Jew of Some Reputation We are familiar with Saul the first King of Israel, ultimately killed in battle then replaced by David. – שָׁאוּל His Hebrew name šā’ûl means ‘desired,‘ however Saul of Tarsus was not the ‘hebrew of hebrews’ that any follower of The Way…
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