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THE BOOK OF LIFE-GIVING KNOWLEDGE ?7
books we find 365 direct quotations from Genesis
to Malachi, and about 375 more references to
those Hebrew Scriptures ; or a total of about 740 .
The quotations are from 35 different books, or
from all except Ruth, Ezra, Ecclesiastes, and Song
of Solomon . How could this be if those early
Christians did not have the Bible? They both had
it and refused to belittle its importance .
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When Paul went out on missionary work he
generally found the Hebrew Bible ahead of him
in the Jewish community . At Antioch in Pisidia
Paul and Barnabas took a seat in the Jewish
synagogue. What happened? "After the public
reading of the Law and of the Prophets the presiding
officers of the synagogue sent out to them,"
inviting them to speak . Acts 13 :15-27, NW In
Paul's speech in which he quoted from the Psalms
and Prophets, he spoke, too, of the "Prophets
which are read aloud every Sabbath" . At the conference
of apostles and older brothers in Jerusalem,
the disciple James quoted the Prophets and
said : "From ancient times Moses has had in city
after city those who preach him, because he is
read aloud in the synagogues on every sabbath ."
Acts 15 :15,21, NW In the synagogue at Thessalonica,
Macedonia, the apostle Paul reasoned
for three sabbaths from the Hebrew Scriptures,
and when he went from there to Beroea, he found
the Scriptures ahead of his preaching of Christianity.
Though he was an apostle, he submitted
to, yes, he encouraged, having his preaching
10. How did Paul and James verify that the Bible
preceded Christianity?