Lesson 1 – Reading

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Scriptural Verses:

Acts 17:7, …and Jason has entertained them as guests. They are all acting contrary to the decrees of the emperor, saying that there is another king named Yeshua.”

Galatians 2:11-16But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned; for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction.   And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.  But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”  We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Yeshua Messiah. And we have come to believe in Messiah Yeshua, so that we might be justified by faith in Messiah, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.

Acts 10:1-3In Caesarea, there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Cohort, as it was called.  He was a devout man who feared God with all his household; he gave alms generously to the people and prayed constantly to God.  One afternoon at about three o’clock he had a vision in which he clearly saw an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius”

Acts 10:25-28On Peter’s arrival Cornelius met him, and falling at his feet, worshiped him. But Peter made him get up, saying, “Stand up; I am only a mortal.”  And as he talked with him, he went in and found that many had assembled;  and he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or to visit a Gentile; but God has shown me that I should not call anyone unholy or unclean.

Acts 15:1, Then certain individuals came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

Acts 15:19-21Therefore I have reached the decision that we should not trouble those Gentiles who are turning to God,  but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.  For in every city, for generations past, Moses has had those who proclaim him, for he has been read aloud every Shabbat in the synagogues.”

 

Additional Recommended Reading:

  • Backgrounds of Early Christianity by Ferguson
  • In the Shadow of the Temple by Skarsaune
  • Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity by DeSilva
  • Paul and Empire by Horsley
  • Paul: Fresh Perspectives by NT Wright
  • The Beginnings of Jewishness by Cohen
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