Thematic Bible: Attachment to customs of the law
Thematic Bible
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“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.
and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.
for we have heard him say that this Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and alter the customs which Moses handed down to us.”