A CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY

ON

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

BY

C. K. BARRETT

Emeritus Professor of Divinity in Durham University

in two volumes

Volume II

Introduction and Commentary on Acts XV–XXVIII

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PREFACE

I have little to add to the Preface that I wrote for Volume I of this commentary. What I wrote then, especially by way of thanks to a number of people who in various ways have helped me, is still true. Some things are perhaps better arranged in this volume than in the first; one learns from one’s mistakes. This volume contains a more or less conventional ‘Introduction’. It will, I think, be clear why I could not write it until I had cleared my mind on a number of questions that arise in Acts 15–28.

Since Volume I was completed, the 27th edition of Nestle-Aland’s Novum Testamentum Graece has appeared. After some thought I have decided in favour of consistency, and have retained the text and apparatus of NA26. Some day, perhaps, the commentary may be revised and the sigla of the later edition used throughout.

C. K. BARRETT

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

Preface

Additions to Bibliographies and Abbreviations

Map

INTRODUCTION

I text

II sources

III acts as a historical document

IV acts in history

V the theology of acts

VI conclusion

ACTS 15–28: CONTENTS

COMMENTARY

X the council in jerusalem (15:1–35)

XI paul’s mission breaks new ground (15:36–18:23)

XII the mission based on ephesus (18:24–20:38)

XIII paul returns to jerusalem (21:1–22:29)

XIV paul and the jews (22:30–23:35)

XV paul and the romans (24:1–26:32)

XVI paul reaches rome (27:1–28:28)

XVII conclusion (28:(29)–31)

INDEX

ADDITIONS TO BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND ABBREVIATIONS

Commentaries referred to by the Author’s Name Only

Johnson, L. T. The Acts of the Apostles, Sacra Pagina 5, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1992.

Overbeck, F. C. Kurze Erklärung der Apostelgeschichte von Dr. W. M. L. de Wette, vierte Auflage bearbeitet und stark erweitert von F. Overbeck, Leipzig, 1870.

Taylor, J. Les Actes des deux Apôtres. V Commentaire Historique (Act. 9:1–18:22), Études Bibliques, Nouvelle Série 23, Paris, 1992; VI (Act. 18:23–28:31), Études Bibliques, Nouvelle Série 30, Paris, 1996.

Wikenhauser, A. Die Apostelgeschichte, Regensburger NT, 4th edn 1961.