Three groups had answered Rome three ways. A teacher from Nazareth gave a fourth answer, and it outlasted the empire.
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Students will place the life of Jesus in its Roman setting, explain how his teaching answered the question of living under Rome differently from the Zealots, Sadducees and Pharisees, and describe the first church in Jerusalem.
Read Mark 12:13-17 aloud together before the lesson's turn. The trap in the question, and the way the answer steps out of it, is clearer read straight from the Gospel.
U1-L8 follows the church out of Jerusalem with Paul, and into the persecutions under Nero.
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Part One
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Part Two
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