Job

"Speak to the people all the words of this Life," Acts 5:20.

So there's two groups of people involved here. The apostles. And the Sadducees. Jesus gave the apostles a job (apostle means sent out on the job), namely, to tell all the things they had seen and heard Jesus say and do. Not everybody can be an apostle: you had to be there to see and hear what Jesus had said and done. The Sadducees, a wealthy political and religious party, controlled the priesthood jealously. They did not like the changes implied by preaching Christ. So they put them in jail. God freed them and told them to keep on preachin' on. This repeated several times. Sometimes they got killed. And this repeated. Yeah. To our present day. But God still tells his people to tell the whole story that Jesus' apostles witnessed. And so we do. Congregation. Of Christ. Sky kingdom.

When we meet with a brother or sister today, we tell the apostles' story of Jesus, again. And, together, we say: Thank you, Lord, for loving us and saving us and the whole world.