Luke wrote Acts around 57-60 AD
The sect of the Nazarenes
We read about Paul the following:
Act 24:5 For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
See also
- 374 AD: Epiphanius Statement against the sect of Nazarenes
- 404 AD: Letter from Jerome to Augustine, regarding the sect of Nazarenes
We can see that the Nazarenes (believers that followed Jesus the way the apostles did) were active up to 404 AD, while we see the term Christians mentioned for the first time in Antioch (Act 11:26).
We also see from quotes made by Ignatius Bishop of Antioch, start 2nd century, that the church in Antioch started to go against the instructions given to us in the Bible by promoting Sunday as the new day as a special day and stop keeping the Sabbath after the Jewish manner.
It is in Antioch were we start to see the split between Jewish Believers and Gentile Christians!