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for Thomas, who was absent from the others at that time, but was presenta week later when Jesus made his next recorded appearance.The Pentecost day, when the kingdom came that had been preached by John the Baptist and then by Jesus as \of Passover week (Leviticus 23:15-16). And following that, when about three thousand were baptized and added to the number of Christ%u2019s disciples, \apostles%u2019 teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of breadand the prayers\\ breaking of bread\(1 Corinthians 11:20), instituted by Christ the night before his death (Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-25).InActs 20:6-7, we have a record of Paul and his company, who had arrived seven days earlier in Troas and tarried till \Paul discoursed with them [with the disciples at Troas], intending to depart on the morrow\implying a weekly practice of meeting together on the first day of the week to \or partake of the Lord%u2019s supper.In 1 Corinthians 16:1-4, we have the apostle Paul giving directions to the saints in Corinth, as he had given to the churches in Galatia, for a collection for the needy saints in Jerusalem, saying: \in store [perhaps more accurately, put into the treasury by itself,%u2019that is in a separate fund], as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come\Jerusalem\week before his arrival, because of the regularly coming together on that day for Christian worship. (See Macknight, Apostolical Epistles, and McGarvey and Pendleton, Thessalonians, Corinthians, Galatians, and Romans,with reference to 1 Corinthians 16:2 in particular.)In Revelation 1:9, likely written about A.D. 96, the apostle John speaks of being \the Lord%u2019s day\Patmos, understood by early Christians as referring to the first day of the week, also called \eighth day\memory of the resurrectionof Christ, as \death of Christ; and they assembled on \their \ being Christ, and him alone.That distinguished Christians(a) from Jewsreligiously speaking, whose weekly worship assembly day was Saturday, their sabbath, on one hand, (b) from pagansonthe other hand, who in Egypt and Asia Minor had a similar phrase, te sebste herma, for the first day of the month, in honor of the Roman emperor, Caesar, whom they worshipped as divine, employing the Greek word sebaste, a symbol of kuriakeused instead byChristians of Christ. (See Interpreter%u2019s Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. KQ, p.152).