NT302 Essay
Evluate, "Peters visit to Cornelius was a major turning point of the Acts narrative"
Intro
In evaluating this statement I will detail what I believe is Luke's particular bias in desribing the expansion of the early church from a mainly Jewish population centred in Jerusalem, to a predominantly Gentile population that expanded geographically and socially outwards. In Acts 1:8 he quotes Jesus, "....you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
You will be my witnesses in *Jerusalem. You will also be my witnesses in all *Judea and *Samaria, and all over the earth.’ A witness has seen something with his own eyes. Therefore, he knows that it is true. The *Greek word for ‘witness’ …show more content…
He kne of course, the scriptural promises that Israel would be the light of the world. He knew that Jesus had spoken of a time when people would come from east and west (this, significantl) was following Jesus’ own meeting with a devout centurion, in Matthew 8) into God’s new world. But it seems that he, like the others, had assumed that non-Jews who wanted to share in the life of God’s new world, the messianic world that had been opened up through Jesus, would have to do what Gentiles had always had to do: to become proseLytes, to take upon themselves Jewish identity, to renounce their own ethnic past and embrace Judaism lock, stock and barrel.
Wright, Tom. Acts for Everyone Part 1. : SPCK, 2008. pp140"
Gentiles had to repent and believe on Jesus for salvation, but they didn't have to convert to Judaism.
The HS had fallen on Jews in Jerusalem in Ch 2, Samaria in Ch 8 and the Gentiles. More interestingly a ROMAN gentile. An empire that was for all intents and purposes covering 'the ends of the earth.'
It's significant that in a narritive style that moves historically and geographically quite quickly at times, that Luke choses to repeat certain
Evluate, "Peters visit to Cornelius was a major turning point of the Acts narrative"
Intro
In evaluating this statement I will detail what I believe is Luke's particular bias in desribing the expansion of the early church from a mainly Jewish population centred in Jerusalem, to a predominantly Gentile population that expanded geographically and socially outwards. In Acts 1:8 he quotes Jesus, "....you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
You will be my witnesses in *Jerusalem. You will also be my witnesses in all *Judea and *Samaria, and all over the earth.’ A witness has seen something with his own eyes. Therefore, he knows that it is true. The *Greek word for ‘witness’ …show more content…
He kne of course, the scriptural promises that Israel would be the light of the world. He knew that Jesus had spoken of a time when people would come from east and west (this, significantl) was following Jesus’ own meeting with a devout centurion, in Matthew 8) into God’s new world. But it seems that he, like the others, had assumed that non-Jews who wanted to share in the life of God’s new world, the messianic world that had been opened up through Jesus, would have to do what Gentiles had always had to do: to become proseLytes, to take upon themselves Jewish identity, to renounce their own ethnic past and embrace Judaism lock, stock and barrel.
Wright, Tom. Acts for Everyone Part 1. : SPCK, 2008. pp140"
Gentiles had to repent and believe on Jesus for salvation, but they didn't have to convert to Judaism.
The HS had fallen on Jews in Jerusalem in Ch 2, Samaria in Ch 8 and the Gentiles. More interestingly a ROMAN gentile. An empire that was for all intents and purposes covering 'the ends of the earth.'
It's significant that in a narritive style that moves historically and geographically quite quickly at times, that Luke choses to repeat certain