By Frederick Fyvie Bruce
This concise but scholarly examine elucidates 4 of the non-Pauline hobbies within the early church, every one of whch will be pointed out with a specific chief: Peter, Stephen, James, and John. Bruce skillfully translates the restricted resource fabrics present in Paul's letters, the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospels, and different early Christian writings to supply an informative and illuminating paintings.
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100. 36. See p. 121. Stephen and Other Hellenists 61 Hellenists - Greek-speaking Jews like themselves but some of them, whose roots were in Cyprus and Cyrene, began to tell the story to Greek-speaking pagans as well. This was the commencement of a large-scale mission to Gentiles. The development in Antioch may well have been paralleled in other places, of which we have no comparable record. In Antioch, however, several strands of primitive Christianity met. Barnabas the Cypriot, who enjoyed the confidence of the Jerusalem leaders, was sent by them to superintend and direct the Christian advance in Antioch; he was shortly afterwards joined by Paul, from Tarsus, and later Peter also visited Antioch.
6, capital jurisdiction was reserved to the Roman 11. See pp. 3 8 , 91 ff. 12. Prochorus, another of the seven, is n a m e d in the fifth-century Acts of John as the author of that work and a disciple of the apostleevangelist-divine. Stephen and Other Hellenists 53 13 governor; in one area, however - offences against the sanctity of the temple (whether by action or by word) - the Sanhedrin was allowed to pronounce and execute the death sentence. It may be recalled that, when Jesus was brought before the same court, an attempt was made to convict him on a charge of speaking against the temple: " I will destroy this temple that is made with hands .
Our principal evidence from this period comes from Paul's Corinthian correspon dence. Paul came to Corinth in the later summer of A . D . 50 and in the course of eighteen months built up a vigorous, if volatile, church in that city. From there he moved to Ephesus, and from time to time during his Ephesian ministry he received visitors from Corinth w h o carried back messages or letters from him to the Corinthian church. Early in A . D . 55 he received visitors who brought what for him was the disquieting news that factions, or at least rival schools of thought, were developing in the Corin thian church, each invoking some outstanding name the apostolic letter in Acts 15:28 f.