John the Baptist

09
May
A man in red robes stands on a rock to address a crowd. Water and trees are in the background.

What Early Rivals Reveal About Christianity’s Fragmented Beginnings

Before Christianity, there was a tangle of competing movements, rival baptisms, and charismatic teachers. A brief story in Acts about an Alexandrian preacher named Apollos cracks that tidy history open — and asks what if Jesus wasn't the center yet?
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