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WORD BIBLICAL COMMENTARY

Acts 1–9:42

STEVE WALTON

Old Testament Editor: Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford

New Testament Editor: David B. Capes

ZONDERVAN ACADEMIC

Acts 1–9:42, Volume 37A

Copyright © 2024 by Steve Walton

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Walton, Steve, 1955- author.

Title: Acts 1:1-9:42 / Steve Walton.

Description: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan Academic, [2024] | Series: Word biblical commentary ; volume 37A | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023057919 (print) | LCCN 2023057920 (ebook) | ISBN 9780310599388 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780310599401 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Bible. Acts, I, 1-IX, 42--Commentaries.

Classification: LCC BS2625.53 .W35 2024 (print) | LCC BS2625.53 (ebook) | DDC 226.6/07--dc23/eng/20240408

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Editorial Board

Old Testament Editor: Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford (2011–)

New Testament Editor: David B. Capes (2020–)

Past Editors

General Editors

Ralph P. Martin (2012–2013)

Bruce M. Metzger (1997–2007)

David A. Hubbard (1977–1996)

Glenn W. Barker (1977–1984)

Old Testament Editors

John D. W. Watts (1977–2011)

James W. Watts (1997–2011)

New Testament Editors

Peter H. Davids (2013–2020)

Ralph P. Martin (1977–2012)

Lynn Allan Losie (1997–2013)

Contents

Editors’ Preface

Author’s Preface

Abbreviations

General Bibliography

Introduction

A. What Kind of Commentary Is This?

B. The Text of Acts

I. Beginning at the Beginnings (1–2)

A. Superscription (1:1–2)

B. Jesus Ascends to Heaven (1:3–11)

C. Between Jesus’s Ascension and the Spirit’s Coming (1:12–26)

D. The Spirit Comes at Pentecost (2:1–41)

E. The Life of the Early Community (2:42–47)

II. The Mission in Jerusalem (3:1–8:3)

A. Jesus Heals—And Its Consequences (3:1–4:31)

1. Jesus Heals the Man at the Beautiful Gate (3:1–10)

2. Peter’s Speech and Differing Responses (3:11–4:4)

3. God Equips Peter and John ...