REL 1005 Chapter : Chapter 7
Document Summary
This chapter is an overview of early christianity. He baptized jesus and after that jesus went out on his own and did his own thing kind of like john. He got his own disciples and started preaching. It may or may not be coincidental that john and. Jesus were both arrested and crucified over the passover celebration time. Jewish christians is referred to any jew who believed in jesus as some sort of savior. Judaic christians are jews who acknowledged jesus as the messiah but continued to practice the religion of judaism as the way to god. This chapter goes on to talk about the twelve apostles and how the number twelve corresponds to the number of tribes in ancient israel. In the new age that they expected would happen near then, that the twelve apostles would rule the twelve tribes of israel. He was the head of the jerusalem church. Simon, james and john were closest to jesus.
