Thus they were banned from preaching at mosques.

Thus, upon joining the order, Franciscans gave away all possessions and focused on preaching in the streets to the common man.

“ Acts, then is a continuation of the Lucan Gospel, not in the sense that it relates what Jesus continued to do, but how his followers carried out his commission under the guidance of his Spirit .” Thus, part of the answer to the purpose of Acts is that Luke is writing to Theophilus, who is also mentioned in Luke 1: 3, in order to explain to him the occurrences that take place in the church that fulfill Jesus ’ promise to his disciples that “ you will be baptized with, the Holy Spirit not many days from now ” ( Acts 1: 5 ).

Thus Irenaeus provides the earliest witness to the assertion of the four canonical Gospels, possibly in reaction to Marcion's edited version of the Gospel of Luke, which Marcion asserted was the one and only true gospel.

Thus, " All-In-God " ( see pantheism ) as stated in one of the Sayings of Gospel of Thomas: " Lift Up A Stone And You Will Find Me There ..." This seemingly contradictory interpretation of Gnosticism's theology is not without controversy.

Thus Hinduism's consideration of itself as an Eastern extension of the Christian Gospel, however, is neither unique to Yogananda or his disciple, Swami Kriyananda.

Thus, the term " Jews " in the Gospel is applied to those who deny the resurrection and believe that the disciples stole Jesus's corpse.

Although there is still ongoing debate about the Jewish Christian Gospels and " only the very daring, nowadays, venture on speculations in regard to the Gospel of the Hebrews ", most scholars agree with Schneemelcher when he says, " Thus the number of Jewish Gospels -- whether there be one, two or three such gospels -- is uncertain, the identification of the several fragments is also uncertain and, finally the character and the relationship to one another of the several Jewish gospels is uncertain.

Thus in the Gospel of the Hebrews we should not be surprised, that after the temptation of Jesus it says, “ Even so did my Mother, the Holy Spirit, take me by one of my hairs and carry me to the great mountain Tabor.

Thus, the Ethiopian's conversion can also be interpreted as a partial fulfillment of the mission presented in to bring the Gospel to the " ends of the earth ".

Thus the Gospel of Matthew is held to record Jesus ' lineage by birth while Luke's by law, this distinction being defended by Luke's use of the phrase " Joseph son of Eli, as was supposed.

Thus, it is possible for people to be saved through hearing the Gospel message of forgiveness of sins by Christ, even if they have not been instructed by Christian missionaries.

Thus, a theory has been put forward, that the story in the Gospel was merely symbolic, wanting to draw a parallel between Jacob being visited by God and the disciples being visited by Jesus.

Thus passages from St John appear in the special seasons of Advent and Lent, on Passion Sunday in all three years, throughout Holy Week, including Good Friday, on Easter Day as the first alternative Gospel, during most of the Easter season, on Pentecost and during the year in which St Mark's gospel is in use.

" Thus, the true identity of the author of the Gospel of John remains a subject of considerable debate.

Thus amid these surroundings the Gospel was preached to a crowded audience and a remarkable work was begun.

Thus she adopted a white habit and moved out of the orphanage to establish " The Everlasting Gospel Mission " in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.

Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.

Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.

Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.

Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Thus there is a clearer division of authority, administrative and legislative.

Thus, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.

Thus, the need for the B-70 as a strategic weapon system is doubtful.

Thus technical efficiency is achieved at the expense of actual experience.

Thus, there is an added incentive to stay on the job.

Thus, the Span of its ossification was shortened and the center's ability to `` catch up '' in ossification is demonstrated.

Thus T is not diagonalizable.

Thus Af is divisible by the minimal polynomial P of T, i.e., Af divides Af.

Thus, the study of the solutions to the equation Af is reduced to the study of the space of solutions of a differential equation of the form Af.

Thus in the three-dice example Af, Af, and the independence assumption imply that the probability that the three dice fall ace, not-ace, ace in that order is Af.

Thus we do not score the number of bull's-eyes, and the random variable is not the number of successes.

Thus if E is sufficiently small, there can be only one intersection of C and Af near Q, for if there were more than one intersection for every E then the difference between C and Af near Q would not be a monotone function.

Thus Af is also continuous at Af, and in a neighborhood of Af which does not contain a tangent point.