FOLLOWERS OF THE WAY Designation for Christians in the book of Acts (Acts 9:2 -2 and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem; 19:9 9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. 10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks., 23; 22:4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.; 24:22 And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them,Felix had been governor for six years and was quite familiar with the Way. The Christian movement, which had involved thousands of people from the first day on (2:41, 47; 4:4), would have been a topic of conversation among the Roman leadership. a). In its early years, Christianity was called “the Way.” The Roman Catholic church came 300 years later by Emperor Constantine of Rome. God Save the World, Inc.
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