58._ Church

Thus proliferated, and prospered, communities by all the regions and cities around the Mediterranean and further on. They met to comment what it had happened in days of the Master, to mutually share and to increase their faith in the resurrection, to narrate again –and for the first time to those just arrived--, the sayings and facts from their Master, and thus to go better understanding them.

The years spent; the old ones which had been eyewitnesses of the life of Jesus, the first apostles, were dying; their friends and disciples were putting in writing the stories and doctrines that had heard to them; innumerable stories, oral and written, were being collected, compiling, to form greater writings authorized officially, recognized and accepted by all --among other many rejected--, in different cities and regions; later they were reunited in books: the "gospels" of (the successors of) Mark, Mattew, Luke and John, and the most important letters --mainly those of the converted Paul, the apostle of the gentile ones, who had developed the first Christian theology--, and the "Acts of the Apostles" of Luke and the "Revelation" of John; all wrote in its definitive form around half century after Christ.