Jews and Greeks
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The question of the return of Jesus Christ to earth did not provoke any problem, but the relationships between Christianity and Judaism did.
The first Christians in Jerusalem had grown up Jews, and even if they believed in Jesus as the Messiah they remained Jews. They baptized new members and repeated Jesus` words from the Last Supper. They also shared bread and wine a ritual that became the Eucharist or Communion or simple the Lord's Supper. Baptism and ritual meals were practiced among the Jewish groups. In the early stage of Christianity, in spite of evidence that all Christians were Jews, there were other groups of Jews who created different kinds of problems. The group of Twelve Apostles was leader of Christians in Jerusalem. St. Peter was their first chairman. They all spoke Aramaic...