REL220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eucharist, Pharisees, Sadducees
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General: a striving for a common purpose. Common meal (more likely see 2:46) Prayers may indicate fixed prayers and set times of. Apostles doing many wonders and signs prayer. Included making the oppressed well (e. g. physical healing, exorcism), but more importantly: Signs and wonders in acts validate the messengers and their message (peterson, acts, 88) Meeting in the temple and in homes. Homes: more intimate gathering- share meals, prayer. Sense of awe/fear- awareness of god at work among jesus" disciples. They had high favor for jesus" disciples. And the lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved . Compare peter"s speech in acts 2 with speech in acts 3. Apostles are witnesses to life, death, and resurrection of jesus. Scriptures foresaw the death, resurrection, and exaltation of jesus. Captain of the temple- 2nd in rank; overseer of priests & chief of policing forces in temple. Sadducees: a leading religious, political party in jerusalem.
