The Book of Acts - The Newness of the New Testament

i wonder how many of us would be right there with, let's call it main stream judaism. And so whenever the disciples get beat up, whenever they get jailed, we can be upset about that, but we have to understand why that is happening. It's not because they're surrounded by people who simply want to be gangsters. Simply simply want to, simply want to hurt them. People w believe that they are a threat to the very survival of israel, a threat. But what's also the case is that they are yet in empire. And so they also feel, they also feel the pressure of being an empire. Do you understand what this language can whaw