How do you suppose persons reacted when Christians...?

Question

...came knocking on their door in first century?

"And every day in the temple and from house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus." -Acts 5:42; 20:20

Mahal:
Actually, they were Jewish Christians. By that time, holy spirit had been poured out bringing birth to the Christian congregation, although technically they called "Christians" until later.

Answer 1

they probably reacted similarly to how they react today....with derision or no interest...with very few welcoming them....I cant see it being much different.......most people didnt appreciate the message then either, until a miricle was performed.

Answer 2

The reacted by persecuting and murdering them.

The passage you're talking about refers to Jews witnessing to Jews. Christians technically weren't identified yet.

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Technically, Isaiah was a Christian because he believed in the Messiah and understood how the Holy Spirit worked, but no one calls him that because it's silly. He was Jewish.

The early Christians were also Jewish, and they lived at a time when the religion had a number of splinter groups. Since no one yet had identified Christianity as a completely seperate religion, neither do I.

Answer 3

Most Pagans were not swayed by these, "go tell it on a mountain" types, it was much later after the death of Constantine that the Pagans were forced to become Christians...
The rules were simple, become a Christian and fight with us, or die by the sword now...
Blessings.. )O(

Answer 4

in accordance to the Gospel of Judas, which those days became into broadcast on television. Judas became into an extremely close pal of Jesus, possibly the closest of the 12. Jesus needed to be "betrayed" for the Christians to be forgiven. examine into that what you will. So Jesus had Judas "betray" him, devoid of that there would be no Christianity as all of us know it.

Answer 5

Acts 6:11-14
Then they secretly persuaded some men to say, "We have heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God."

So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin. They produced false witnesses, who testified, "This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us."

Acts 7:54-59
When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. "Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

Romans 8:36
As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

Answer 6

Hopefully they slammed the door in their faces like I do.

It's interesting how Christians are always claiming society is being influenced by the ills of society, when they're the ones that have this expansionist attitude to the extent of invading your privacy by going door to door to people's homes and interrupting whatever you're doing in public to hand out those unwanted pamphlets

Answer 7

They probably told them to go away, just as today. I think it would more of a market square, standing on a box shouting out gig.

Answer 8

we know exactly how people responded.

pliny's letter x.96 talks about it, and so does trajan's reply x.97.