Rapid Growth of the Early Church

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        It is important to note that the message was preached, not in a remote location where no 
        one could verify the account, but it was preached in Jerusalem where all of these events 
        took place and where the story could have easily been falsified or verified.
      
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        It is from this location that the church grew. The movement grew very quickly. Acts 
        records three thousand people being baptized in one day (Acts 2:41). On another occasion 
        five thousand people came to believe (Acts 4:4). This corresponds to what we know of the 
        growth of the early church and it is one of the reasons historians do not suspect that 
        Jesus was a legend. Legends take many years to accumulate and gain acceptance. 
        Christianity spread immediately. The Jewish authorities were unable to contain its growth 
        because it was so rapid.
      
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