Who did Jesus deal with during His earthly ministry?
During His earthly ministry, Jesus dealt only with Peter and the other eleven apostles. After His death, burial, and resurrection, the book of Acts still centers on Peter and the eleven, with Matthias replacing Judas. Saul of Tarsus, later Paul, was separately commissioned to go to the Gentile Roman Empire.
Les explains that all during Christ's earthly ministry, Jesus had dealt only with Peter and the other 11 apostles. Even after His death, burial, and resurrection, the book of Acts still shows Peter and the eleven, with Matthias put in place of Judas. Meanwhile Saul of Tarsus was persecuting the early Jewish believers who had accepted Jesus as Messiah, until God saved him by grace on the road to Damascus and commissioned him to take the gospel of grace to the pagan Gentile Roman Empire.