2.50 The First Jesus Club II: Tribulations

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The first chapters of Acts describe the perfect community of the Jerusalem Jesus club. Events take a dark turn after the first five chapters. The club is beset by tribulations. The disciples decide to appoint a set of deacons, middle-managers. That turns out not so well for the deacon Stephen. Stephen is accused of blasphemy, and delivers the longest speech in the book. He is the first to die for his faith after Jesus. Wemeet Simon Magus. Peter converts Cornelius, a pagan Roman. In his last major appearance in Acts, Peter is arrested, released by an angel, and disappears for parts unknown. And the disciple James the son of Zebedee, brother of the Beloved Disciple, is killed by King Herod Agrippa I.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.4	Episode 2.50. the first Jesus Club part two, tribulations.
0:28.0	In the last episode, I related how the disciples were rescued from the wrath of the Jewish authorities by establishment sympathizers.
0:40.5	The disciples are at last free, flogged but free. In this episode, I wanted to cover the next few chapters of the book of Acts,
0:49.0	before the Apostle Paul takes over the narrative.
0:55.7	Here are the spoilers.
1:00.5	The Jerusalem Jesus Club is beset by tribulations.
1:05.7	Stephen is the first to die for his faith after Jesus.
1:09.3	The disciples flee Jerusalem for their lives.
1:11.9	Peter converts a pagan Roman.
1:16.9	And James the son of Zebedee is killed by Herod Agrippa.
1:23.0	The earliest chapters of Acts tell us that from the start,
1:27.2	the Jesus Clubs establish organized systems of charity.
1:31.8	The Book of Acts now introduces a little conflict.
1:38.5	The Jesus Club franchise is spreading to Greek-speaking Jews in nearby lands.
1:47.5	The third city of the Empire, Antioch in the province of Syria, is a specially fertile soil for the franchise.
1:55.3	The Greek-speaking Jesus clubs in the diaspora begin to grumble that all their charitable money is being funneled into the Hebrew-speaking Jesus clubs in Judea.
2:03.3	The disciples brush aside the grievances.
2:09.6	We have much more important things to do, they say, than mere physical labour.
2:13.7	Quote, Acts 6-2.
2:21.2	And the 12 called together the whole community of the disciples, and said, it is not right that we should neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables. Therefore, friends,
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