RELIGION REVIEWER 2.

Acts of the Apostles

Chapter 1
The New Testament books
 Old testament- Classified
into 3 categories 3. Letters
(The law or torah, the
prophets, the writings)
 New testament- Grouped
into 4 categories
1. Gospels
 Matthew, Mark,
Luke, John
 Announce the good
news of our Lord
 They were authored
by writers known as
evangelist, a term
derived from the
Greek word
Euangelion, which
means
“announcement of 4. Revelation
the good news”
 The four gospels
are the principal
witnesses to the life
and teachings of
Jesus Christ
 Faith accounts of
Jesus
 Early spread of the
Good News to the
world
 Formation of the
early church
 Twenty-one letters
in the bible are
called Epistles.
 Addressed the early
Christian
Communities and
the individual
leaders
 Give advice
 All the letters are
concerned with how
Christians should
apply Jesus’
teachings, His good
news of salvation,
to their daily lives
 Apocalypse is the
only prophetic
book.
 Highly symbolic
and visionary
account of decisive
struggle of Christ
and his followers
against Satan and
his forces

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Knowing how the Gospels were Stage 3: The written Gospel
formed (A.D. 65-100)

Stage 1: Jesus’ Life in  Faith testimonies to the

Palestine(A.D. 1-30) life, death, and
resurrection of Jesus
 Works and words of Jesus of
written by believers to
Nazareth
guide fellow believers
 Jesus proclaimed the good
and inspire new ones
news of our salvation
 The evangelists
 After the resurrection, The
organized the materials
apostles preached that
according to their own
Jesus himself is the Good
particular sources and
news
purpose
 God sent His only Son to
 Biblical inspiration
become man and die for us,
the greatest sign of his love Discovering the Gospel
for us Portrayals of Jesus

Stage 2: Oral Tradition (A.D. 30-  Matthew, Mark, Luke-

64) Synoptic Gospels (syn
and optic – “to see
 The apostles understood
together”
clearly for the first time who
 John- poetic tone,
Jesus was and what He had
contains accounts that
accomplished.
are not found in the
 Faith in Jesus was the core
synoptic Gospels
teaching that the first
preachers passed on to the
world
 Their preaching consisted of
narrative faith accounts of
Jesus’ earthly life
 The original proclamation of
the apostles after Pentecost
is called the Kerygma

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  The Gospel Portraits of
Jesus
1. Mark: Jesus is the
suffering Messiah
 Console the suffering
Christians
 What it meant to be a
disciple of Jesus, that is,
to follow Him unto the
cross
 We see Jesus trying
many times to keep His
true identity a secret
 Messianic Secret
2. Matthew: The
Messiah and King
 Matthew portrayed Him
being recognized and
proclaimed as the
Messiah
The Gospel Symbols
 Jesus’ Jewish heritage
 “to follow Jesus” is to
learn Jesus’ way of life
3. Luke: Jesus is the
savoir of the World
 Good news that Jesus
was the Savoir
 Full of mercy and
compassion
 It shows the significant
role of women in Jesus’
ministry
 Jesus’ prayer life and His
being “filled with the spirit
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4. Luke: Jesus is the
Son of God, the Word
of God made man
 Emphasizes the divinity
of Jesus
 “the Word of God
enfleshed”
 “the Light of the world”
 Jesus depicted not as
beaten, tormented
victim but as glorified
King, calm and fully in
charge of his destiny
 Jesus’ Last Supper,
Passion, Death, and
Resurrection the “ Book
of Glory”
 First twelve chapters the
“Book of Signs”
 Matthew- Man
 Mark- Dessert Lion
 Luke- Ox
 John- Eagle
Chapter 2
Jesus and the Jewish Institutions
1. Jesus upheld the synagogue
and the temple as special
places of worship
 Centers of Jewish
religious instructions
 Housed the sacred
scrolls, under the care
of the elders of the
community
 Meeting place for
prayer, and even legal
decision making
2. Jesus observed the Jewish
prayer Life
 Morning, three o’ clock
in the afternoon, and in
the evening
 Shema- creed or
declaration of faith
3. Jesus taught on the Sabbath
 Rest and worship
 Prayerfully
remembered all that
God had done
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 Recited the Shema,
followed by the
Eighteen Benedictions
(comprise of praise,
petition, and
thanksgiving,),
followed by a scripture
and a Homily in
Aramaic that explains
the message of the
reading
4. Jesus gave a new meaning
to Jewish festivals
 Communal character
since the Jews
realized that their unity
as one nation
deepened completely
on their being called by
God into a covenant
 Passover- Jews’
miraculous liberation
from Egypt and
marked the beginning
of the Jewish religious
year
 2. Jesus corrects the
5. Jesus upheld the Torah
 “law”- First five books
of the Old
Testament—Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus,
Deuteronomy, and
Numbers
 Pentateuch-“five”
“implement”
 Heart of the Jewish
religion
 Dominates Jewish
history, culture,
morality, and worship
3. Jesus eats with the tax
Jesus and the People of His Time
1. Jesus criticizes the
Pharisees’ teachings
 Pharisees- influential
lay movement that
stressed strict
observance of God’s
law
 “the separate ones”
 Holy ones of Israel
4. Jesus chooses a Zealot for
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Sadducees about the
Resurrection
 Sadducees- referred to
in the Gospel as the
“chief priests, elder
and scribes” or the
“leaders of the people”
 Rejected the idea of
the resurrection
 Sadducees accepted
only the teachings
from the five original
books of the Old
Testament
collectors
 Tax collectors-
publicans, commonly
abused their power by
bribing and imposing
exorbitant tax rates on
the people to enrich
themselves
 “public sinners” and
were the most
despised in the society
a disciple
 Zealots were
motivated by their
fanatical zeal for the
Torah and God’s
sovereignty and kingship
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for the Samaritans 1. The Genealogy of
 Samaritans- half- Jew Jesus
and were considered  Matthew- Jesus
impure by the Jews is the Messiah;
because they had Matthew
intermarried with wanted to
pagans stress Jesus’
6. Jesus is not a member of identity as the
any Jewish priestly class Messiah
 Three levels in the promised by
priestly class: Levites, Yahweh
priests, and the high  Luke- Savoir of
priests all people; “the
 The priest and the son of God”; he
Levite passed by the is truly divine
wounded Jew and fully human
apparently because 2. The announcement of
the law prohibited the Birth of Jesus
them from touching  Matthew- made
anyone or anything to Joseph
unclean before offering  Luke- made to
a sacrifice in the Mary
temple 3. The First Visitors of
7. Jesus mingled with the poor Jesus
and outcast  Matthew- Magi;
 “rabble of society” Gold,
who knew nothing of Frankincense
the law and Myrrh
 “ the little ones” or  Luke- poor
“the lost sheep of shepherds
Israel” to whom He
would be the Good
shepherd

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 4. Unique details in
Matthew
 Holy family’s
flight to Egypt
5. Unique details in Luke
 Visitation of
Mary to her
cousin,
Elizabeth
 Jesus is
circumcised
 Jesus is
presented in the
Temple
 The kingdom of
God was being
inaugurated in
radically new
way
6. Common elements
 Jesus was born
of the Virgin
 Jesus was born
in the time of
King Herod the
Great
 Angels brought
the Good news

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