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Shmoop in the Bible Acts of the Apostles Cecil B. Deshmoop here and one time I

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listed my religious studies degree on eBay for kicks I was tempted to take [Religious studies degree placed on eBay]

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that offer yeah anywho today we're learning about the

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Acts of the Apostles well, these bad boys bring us up to speed with what's been

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happening with Christianity post Jesus rising from the dead and ascending to [Jesus rising up]

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heaven which admittedly is a kind of a tough act to follow

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but his disciples are like well someone's go to do it and they gamely

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step up to bat so the twelve disciples rebrand themselves and after a short [Twelve disciples rebranding]

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tumultuous period spent as the artist formerly known as the twelve disciples

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they settle on the apostles and with the sweet new name comes some sweet new

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powers and a Teen Choice Award nomination oh and they can also perform [Disciples at the Teen Choice Awards]

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miracles now but it's not all Teen Choice Awards and miracles they also

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have to teach people about Jesus which come to think of it isn't that what I'm

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doing right here where are my healing powers oh my feet so one of the first [Man bathing in a tub]

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powers the Apostles are granted is the ability to speak in any other language

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seriously man all I've gotten from this gig so far is some angry YouTube

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comments and a retweet from Trump anyway as you can imagine the whole speak any

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language thing comes in handy when you want to spread the word of God to other [Disciples vandalizing a wall]

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nations or ask where the bathroom is so the Apostles are having a good time and

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converting people by the thousands when guess who comes along to put a damper on

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things yep it's the Jewish priests and higher-ups well you may remember them as [Jewish Priest with Darth Vader mask appears]

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the gang who had Jesus well sort of put to death and they aren't too keen on

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the Apostles either spoiler alert they voted for Ariana Grande in the Teen

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Choice Awards well they have the Apostles thrown in jail but God sends [Apostles in jail and God appears with angels]

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some angels to break them out Shawshank style some birds just aren't meant to be

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caged....God always had a hard time telling those two apart for

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some reason you know well unfortunately the Apostles don't get rescued every

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time they get locked up enter Stephen he gets thrown in jail and [Stephen thrown in jail]

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then put on trial but there no happy shawshank ending here he's

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stoned to death Stephen has the distinction of being the first Christian

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martyr whether or not Stephen would be happy about that is debatable one of the [Stephen's gravestone appears]

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main bad guys behind his stoning is a guy named Saul...when it comes to persecuting

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Christians well this guy's the tops bet he put that on his LinkedIn profile so [Saul's LinkedIn profile]

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one day Saul's travelling to Damascus probably to find more Christians to

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harrass and God decides he's had about enough of this guy there's a flash from

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heaven and Saul falls to the ground Saul hears Jesus' voice ask why did you persecute me?

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Saul gets up and discovers that he's blind which is probably gonna make persecuting a little [Saul walks into a rock]

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more difficult so Saul keeps going to Damascus and finds a follower of Jesus

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who can heal him but did he ever get angry YouTube comments probably not

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score one for Cecil...Once Saul can see again he's like hey that was neat I'm on

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board the Jesus train I'm sorry Arianna voices from the heavens and curing [Saul voting]

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blindness tend to do that well Saul starts preaching about Jesus and how

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awesome he is and one day he gets a new name Saul is drumroll please ...Paul yeah

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so it's not mind-blowing but it's better than the artist formerly known as Saul

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alrighty so we've seen that the Jewish people aren't totally on board with

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Christianity but the Apostles are tenacious folk and they don't stop

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trying to convert them they do start casting a wider net yep we're talking [Apostles throw a large net]

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Gentiles Jewish Christians want the Gentile converts to follow Jewish laws

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which means following their dietary laws and one other thing and what was that

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probably a minor thing super little oh that's right circumcision well the [Gentiles demanding that followers are circumsized]

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Gentile converts are like uh, nope hard pass maybe we'll look into Buddhism or

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something instead so Peter, Paul and the rest of the Apostles end up deciding

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that Gentile Christians don't have to follow Jewish law meteorological reports [People presenting meteorological report]

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say wind gusts went up to 80 miles an hour

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what with the combined force of male Gentiles everywhere heaving sighs of [Gentiles blows in the wind]

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relief well the rest of Acts is basically a giant game of tag the

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Apostles are running all over the country trying to convert anyone who [Apostles running around together]

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will listen and the Jewish authorities and local governments are trying to

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catch em and kill him so the tag analogy isn't perfect yeah sue me a lot

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of it focuses on Paul who has done a major 180 and is now one of the most

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prominent Christian preachers well unfortunately Paul lands on the go to

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jail space on the Monopoly board of life and is thrown in jail for over two years [Paul standing on go to jail square on monopoly board]

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come on Morgan you're letting me down I meant God there why do I keep

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doing that Paul appeals to the Roman Emperor and at

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the end of the book he arrives in Rome sadly it's for work and he doesn't have [Man gives Paul work stuff]

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time to take a glamorous scooter ride...a' la Audrey Hepburn...

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He does however have time to start preaching to the Jews in Rome and hey they haven't

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heard anything bad about him yet so well they're down to listen to Paul preach [Paul preaching to Roman people]

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and this is where Acts ends Paul is in Rome for two years preaching and

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teaching about Jesus while daydreaming about taking a scooter

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ride with Gregory Peck... Will Paul keep

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preaching does he ever get to see Rome via scooter did Ariana Grande really [Ariana on stage with a teen choice award]

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deserve that Teen Choice Award, will I ever get healing powers well tune in

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next time until then I'm Cecil B DeShmoop and I have a youtube comment battle to

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win [Cecil looking at YouTube comments with God and Paul]

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