1. The spread of Christianity in Roman Mesopotamia.
... Mesopotamians and people of the Roman Eastern frontier becoming Christians comes about the year 30-35 CE. The same passage also cites people from " Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphilia- These people were probably a mixed group of Jews who had come to Jerusalem to celebrate the wheat harvest feast of Pentecost; and pagan traders. These neophytes would have brought back their new ... ; and there is no extra-biblical evidence of how successful these neophytes had spread their religion among their family members. What is interesting in this passage however, is that a mixed grou...
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