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128:3.5 Perhaps the most notable of all these [[contacts]] was the one with a young [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_civilization Hellenist] named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen]. This young man was on his first visit to [[Jerusalem]] and chanced to meet Jesus on Thursday afternoon of [[Passover]] week. While they both strolled about viewing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmoneans Asmonean palace], [[Jesus]] began the casual [[conversation]] that resulted in their becoming interested in each other, and which led to a four-hour [[discussion]] of the way of life and the true [[God]] and his [[worship]]. Stephen was tremendously impressed with what [[Jesus]] said; he never forgot his [[words]].

128:3.5 Perhaps the most notable of all these [[contacts]] was the one with a young [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_civilization Hellenist] named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen]. This young man was on his first visit to [[Jerusalem]] and chanced to meet Jesus on Thursday afternoon of [[Passover]] week. While they both strolled about viewing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmoneans Asmonean palace], [[Jesus]] began the casual [[conversation]] that resulted in their becoming interested in each other, and which led to a four-hour [[discussion]] of the way of life and the true [[God]] and his [[worship]]. Stephen was tremendously impressed with what [[Jesus]] said; he never forgot his [[words]].

128:3.6 And this was the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] who subsequently became a believer in the teachings of [[Jesus]], and whose [[boldness]] in preaching this early [[gospel]] resulted in his being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen#Martyrdom stoned to death] by irate [[Jews]]. Some of Stephen's extraordinary boldness in proclaiming his view of the new [[gospel]] was the direct result of this earlier interview with [[Jesus]]. But [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] never even faintly surmised that the Galilean he had talked with some fifteen years previously was the very same [[person]] whom he later [[proclaimed]] the world's Savior, and for whom he was so soon to die, thus becoming the first [[martyr]] of the newly evolving [[Christian]] [[faith]]. When [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] yielded up his life as the price of his attack upon the [[Jewish]] [[temple]] and its [[traditional]] [[practices]], there stood by one named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_of_Tarsus Saul], a citizen of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsus_(city) Tarsus]. And when Saul saw how this [[Greek]] could die for his [[faith]], there were aroused in his [[heart]] those [[emotions]] which [[eventually]] led him to espouse the [[cause]] for which [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] died; later on he became the [[aggressive]] and indomitable Paul, the [[philosopher]], if not the sole founder, of the [[Christian]] [[religion]].

128:3.6 And this was the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] who subsequently became a believer in the teachings of [[Jesus]], and whose [[boldness]] in preaching this early [[gospel]] resulted in his being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen#Martyrdom stoned to death] by irate [[Jews]]. Some of Stephen's extraordinary boldness in proclaiming his view of the new [[gospel]] was the direct result of this earlier interview with [[Jesus]]. But [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] never even faintly surmised that the Galilean he had talked with some fifteen years previously was the very same [[person]] whom he later [[proclaimed]] the world's Savior, and for whom he was so soon to die, thus becoming the first [[martyr]] of the newly evolving [[Christian]] [[faith]]. When [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] yielded up his life as the price of his attack upon the [[Jewish]] [[temple]] and its [[traditional]] [[practices]], there stood by one named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_of_Tarsus Saul], a citizen of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsus_(city) Tarsus]. And when Saul saw how this [[Greek]] could die for his [[faith]], there were aroused in his [[heart]] those [[emotions]] which [[eventually]] led him to espouse the [[cause]] for which [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] died; later on he became the [[aggressive]] and indomitable Paul, the [[philosopher]], if not the sole founder, of the [[Christian]] [[religion]].

128:3.7 On the Sunday after [[Passover]] week Simon and [[Jesus]] started on their way back to [[Nazareth]]. Simon never forgot what [[Jesus]] taught him on this trip. He had always loved [[Jesus]], but now he felt that he had begun to know his [[father]]-[[brother]]. They had many heart-to-heart talks as they [[journeyed]] through the [[Rural|country]] and [[prepared]] their meals by the wayside. They arrived home Thursday noon, and Simon kept the [[family]] up late that night relating his [[experiences]].

128:3.7 On the Sunday after [[Passover]] week Simon and [[Jesus]] started on their way back to [[Nazareth]]. Simon never forgot what [[Jesus]] taught him on this trip. He had always loved [[Jesus]], but now he felt that he had begun to know his [[father]]-[[brother]]. They had many heart-to-heart talks as they [[journeyed]] through the [[Rural|country]] and [[prepared]] their meals by the wayside. They arrived home Thursday noon, and Simon kept the [[family]] up late that night relating his [[experiences]].