001) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle ...
A) Some time after having approved of the execution of Stephen,[13] Paul was traveling on the road to Damascus so that he might find any Christians there and bring them "bound to Jerusalem".[14] At midday, a light brighter than the sun shone around both him and those with him, causing all to fall to the ground, with the risen Christ verbally addressing Paul regarding his persecution.[15][16] Having been made blind,[17] along with being commanded to enter the city, his sight was restored three days later by Ananias of Damascus. After these events, Paul was baptized, beginning immediately to proclaim that Jesus of Nazareth was the Jewish messiah and the Son of God.[18]
B) Fourteen of the 27 books in the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to Paul.
C) It was typical for the Jews of that time to have two names: one Hebrew, the other Latin or Greek.
002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Benjamin ...
A) According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִן, Modern: Bīnyamīn, Tiberian: Bīnyāmīn) was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the patriarch Jacob (later given the name Israel) and his wife Rachel. In the Samaritan Pentateuch the name appears as Binyamīm (Hebrew: בנימים).
003) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism ...
A) The word, mashiach, however, is rarely used in Jewish literature within the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE
B) Second Temple period (516 BCE–70 CE)
C) Jewish Christianity .... Christianity started as a messianic Jewish sect. Most of Jesus's teachings were intelligible and acceptable in terms of Second Temple Judaism; what set the followers of Jesus apart from other Jews was their faith in Jesus as the resurrected messiah.
D) While ancient Judaism acknowledged
multiple messiahs, the two most relevant being the Messiah ben Joseph and the traditional Messiah ben David, Christianity acknowledges only one ultimate Messiah.
E) Judaism forbids the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, since the central belief of Judaism is the absolute unity and singularity of God.[35][note 3]
004) https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/this-passover-discover-the-messiah-in-bible-prophecy/ ...A) Discover the Resurrection of Messiah in Bible Prophecy:
B) On Friday night, Christians remembered the night that Yeshua (Jesus) became our Passover lamb, dying on the execution stake for our sins.
C) Resurrection: A Jewish Belief ...
As is written in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), “The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
D) “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.” (Daniel 12:2; see also Isaiah 26:19 and Psalm 16:10)
E) Yeshua Explains His Death and Resurrection ...
F) Yeshua also compared Himself with the prophet Jonah, saying, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40)
G)
005) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen ....
A) The Catholic, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and Lutheran churches and the Church of the East view Stephen as a saint.
B)
It seems to have been among synagogues of Hellenistic Jews that he performed his teachings and "signs and wonders" since it is said that he aroused the opposition of the "Synagogue of the Freedmen", and "of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them that were of Cilicia and Asia".[9] Members of these synagogues had challenged Stephen's teachings, but Stephen had bested them in debate. Furious at this humiliation, they suborned false testimony that Stephen had preached blasphemy against Moses and God. They dragged him to appear before the Sanhedrin, the supreme legal court of Jewish elders, accusing him of preaching against the Temple and the Mosaic Law.[10] Stephen is said to have been unperturbed, his face looking like "that of an angel".[4]
C) Stephen faced two accusations: that he had declared that Jesus would destroy the Temple in Jerusalem and that he had changed the customs of Moses.
D) In Western Christianity, 26 December is called "Saint Stephen's Day", the "Feast of Stephen" mentioned in the English Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas".
006) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Sanhedrin ...
A) Sanhedrin : : the supreme council and tribunal of the Jews during postexilic times headed by a High Priest and having religious, civil, and criminal jurisdiction
007) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnabas ...
A) Although the date, place, and circumstances of his death are historically unverifiable, Christian tradition holds that Barnabas was martyred at Salamis, Cyprus. He is traditionally identified as the founder of the Cypriot Orthodox Church. The feast day of Barnabas is celebrated on June 11.
C) His Hellenic Jewish parents called him Joseph. ... but when recounting the story of how he sold his land and gave the money to the apostles in Jerusalem, the Book of Acts says the apostles called him Barnabas.
(The "s" at the end is the Greek nominative case ending, and it is not present in the Aramaic form.) ... 008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventy_disciplesA) According to the Gospel of Luke, the only gospel in which they appear, Jesus appointed them and sent them out in pairs on a specific mission which is detailed in the text. The number of those disciples varies between either 70 or 72 depending on the account.
B)
009) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles ...
A) The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire.[3]
010) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus ...
A) The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin: ascensio Iesu, lit. 'ascent of Jesus') is the Christian belief, reflected in the major Christian creeds and confessional statements, that Jesus ascended to Heaven after his resurrection, where he was exalted as Lord and Christ,[1][2] sitting at the right hand of God.[3] The doctrine is also found in Islam, where Jesus is believed not to have been crucified but to have ascended while still alive.
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