Much of the scholarship of the 1800s assumes that Galatia was a province to the north of the first missionary journey churches started through Paul and Barnabas ' ministry as described in Acts 13-14.

Epaphras, who first shared the good news to Colossi, near the opening of the book is presented as a beloved fellow worked-a ' one of us ' from Paul's ministry point of view.

The evangelist divides history into three stages: the first ends with John the Baptist, the second consists of Jesus ' earthly ministry, and the third is the life of the church after Jesus ' resurrection.

His early ministry by word and deed in Galilee meets with much success, and leads to the Sermon on the Mount, the first of the discourses.

The first part relates Jesus ' public ministry from John the Baptist recognizing him as the Lamb of God to the raising of Lazarus and Jesus ' final public teaching.

The first three Gospels of the New Testament are mainly an account of Jesus ' public ministry in this province, particularly in the towns of Nazareth and Capernaum.

As its first acts, the Dáil elected a prime minister ( Príomh Aire ), Cathal Brugha, and inaugurated a ministry called the Aireacht.

When commissioned by the Sovereign, a potential Prime Minister's first requisite is to " form a Government " – create a cabinet of ministry that has the support of the House of Commons, of which they are expected to be a member.

However, the enforcement activity of the ministry was limited severely by the political upheavals that plagued Tajikistan in its first years of independence.

For the first time in its history non-ordained pastors became a normal expectation, rather than an extraordinary provision for ministry.

Gladstone's first ministry saw many reforms including Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting.

In December 1834 he was appointed as a Junior Lord of the Treasury in Sir Robert Peel's first ministry.

* October 14 – The Komisja Edukacji Narodowej ( Polish for Commission for the Education of the People ), formed in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, is considered to be the first ministry of education in the history of mankind.

After some months in the ministry of relations with Parliament, Chirac's first high-level post came in 1972 when he became Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development under Pompidou, who had been elected president in 1969, after de Gaulle retired.

Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester.

In 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent kingdoms within the Commonwealth of Nations.

The cabinet was reconstituted as the first coalition ministry in May 1915, and Lloyd George was made Minister of Munitions in a new department created after a munitions shortage.

Indeed, since the Coalition's formation in 1923, the major non-Labor party had only been able to govern alone once, during Joseph Lyons ' first ministry -- and even then, Lyons ' United Australia Party had come up four seats short of a majority and needed confidence and supply support from the Country Party to govern.

This marked the first time Japan's tourism ministry had appointed a fictional character to the role.

April 1, 1815 the RNoN's leadership was reorganized into a navy ministry, and Fasting became the first navy minister.

Christ also fasted for forty days and forty nights, an example of submission to the first person of the Trinity, God the Father, and as a way of preparing for ministry.

Their first minister, Peter Nicholas Sommer, began his ministry at Haynersville and adjoining areas in 1743.

* Constance Coltman, one of the first women ordained to Christian ministry in Britain

It was founded in 1914 as a corporation of the Bible Students by Charles Taze Russell in London, England, and was the first legal corporation representing Russell's ministry in Europe.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.