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I was going for more the shock of Jews hearing that being the sons and daughters of Abraham was not going to seal the deal in the Kingdom of God.Aquila and Priscilla (Acts 18:2-3) were from Italy, I’m thinking Rome. I suspect you are thinking about Acts 19:1-3, where the disciples of John were baptized in the Holy Spirit. The way I get it, and of course I might be wrong, Aquila, Priscilla and Apollos were dropped off in Ephesus while Paul was on his way to the Holy Convocation in Jerusalem and founded the churches in Asian Minor. My thought here is that there was more then one dynamic working here, the moving of the Holy Spirit not withstanding. Paul had met Priscilla and Aquila in Corinth, I’m guessing his second missionary journey (Acts 18:21), they had been expelled from Rome.
Following the persecution of Christians in Jerusalem after the martyrdom of James the gospel spread through Phoenicia, Cyprus and I assume other places. The gospel had already reached Rome following Pentecost, it staggers the imagination, were Aquila and Priscilla part of that originally founded Jewish church in Rome?
Perhaps idle speculation but it does make one wonder.
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