It was "the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests" (Acts 5:24) who were against the Apostles in the earliest days of the church of Christ.
The common Jew looked favorably upon the Apostles and their disciples (Acts 2:47; 5:13), so much so that the captain who went to summon the Apostles to court handled them gently, "for they were afraid that the people might stone them" (Acts 5:26).
Does this sound to you like the very first church of Christ was offensive in any way to the common Jews who were praising God alongside the disciples there in the Jewish temple? Or was it instead that the church was only offensive to the corrupt Jewish leaders?
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