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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "the-church-grows",
  "era": "early-church",
  "order": 421,
  "title": "The church grows",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "AD 30 or 33",
    "note": "The same year as the crucifixion, usually dated AD 30 or 33."
  },
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    31.77744
  ],
  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "jerusalem_636",
  "summary": "The believers devote themselves to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread and prayer. They share their possessions, meet daily in the temple courts and in homes, and the Lord adds to their number daily.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Acts 2:42–47",
      "range": [
        44002042,
        44002047
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%202%3A42%E2%80%9347&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Acts",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 42,
          "text": "They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."
        },
        {
          "book": "Acts",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 43,
          "text": "A sense of awe came over everyone, and the apostles performed many wonders and signs."
        },
        {
          "book": "Acts",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 44,
          "text": "All the believers were together and had everything in common."
        },
        {
          "book": "Acts",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 45,
          "text": "Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need."
        },
        {
          "book": "Acts",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 46,
          "text": "With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Acts",
          "chapter": 2,
          "verse": 47,
          "text": "praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "places": [
    {
      "id": "jerusalem_636",
      "name": "Jerusalem",
      "coordinate": [
        35.23494,
        31.77744
      ],
      "kind": "City",
      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "rule",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire",
          "url": "http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/15896"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "mapPeriod": "roman-ad50",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire",
      "url": "http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/15896"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "theographic",
        "ref": "309"
      },
      {
        "name": "editorial"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Early Church",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=the-church-grows",
  "attribution": [
    "Events and places adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata (github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata), CC BY-SA 4.0. This adapted data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.",
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/the-church-grows/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/the-church-grows/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/the-church-grows/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "51ef469de7c77e83"
}