Christian Religious Studies JSS3 Second Term

Sub-theme: Ministry of Apostle Paul

Week 6                                         

The ministry of Apostle Paul II

Performance objectives:

Students should be able to:

1. State the roles played by Paul in the early Christians

Content

Paul persecution of the early church

After the death and burial of Stephen, Paul's persecution of believers began in Jerusalem. That temporary protection which had been extended to the rising sect by such men as Gamaliel was now at an end.

Pharisees and Sadducees, priests and people alike, indulged the most violent and ungovernable fury. It does not seem that any check was laid upon them by the Roman authorities. Either the procurator was absent from the city, or he was willing to connive at what seemed to him.... View More