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2017年6月大学英语六级阅读理解精炼50篇26成功的塔尔苏斯人保罗(含答案)　　英语六级阅读理解精炼第26篇，练习成功的塔尔苏斯人保罗，含有六级阅读练习题，参考译文，答案等内容。供正在准备英语六级考试的学习者参考学习。026. the successful paul of tarsusmost of the people who lived near jerusalem1 were jewish. the romans were pagans2 , but they allowed the jews to practice their faith and did not force them to worship roman gods. about a. d. 30, a holy man named jesus began to attract a following in the roman province of judea. judea is part of the modern nation of israel. his followers came to believe that jesus was the son of the god of the jews and that he performed miracles3 . the followers of jesus angered roman authorities because they refused to follow either jewish or roman laws. the authorities arrested and crucified4 jesus. three days after his execution, jesus followers said they saw him rise from the dead.the followers of jesus called him christ5. christ is a greek word that means“ chosen one”, because they believed he was chosen by god to be his messenger. in time the followers of jesus became known as christians. the christians taught that people’s sins would be forgiven if they became christian. this message was not successful with many jews, but many pagans responded to the idea of christian salvation.many fervent believers carried the message of jesus throughout the roman empire6 . one of the most successful was a greek-speaking jew named paul of tarsus, known to christians as saint paul. as a young man, he helped to persecute christians, but one day he had a vision in which he believed jesus spoke to him from heaven. paul spent the rest of his life thinking and writing about christianity and winning new converts to the faith. through the persistence of paul and other christian missionaries, small christian communities developed throughout the roman empire.the first christians believed that jesus would quickly return to earth, so there was no need to create any written records of his life . after about thirty years, christians began to see a need to write d