Loading…

Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, Volume 3: 15:1–23:35 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented Acts commentary available. Useful not only for the study of Acts but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its first-century context. In this volume, the third of four, Keener continues...

rabbis;5181 the question was whether the Spirit was active in the same manner as in the OT.5182 It was therefore impossible for John’s disciples to be unaware that there was a Holy Spirit. For Luke, John himself was full of the Spirit (Luke 1:15); his announcement involved the Spirit’s eschatological fullness (cf. Acts 1:4–5; 2:17–18; 11:16; Luke 3:16), as Mark and Q also recognized (Mark 1:8; Matt 3:11).5183 Perhaps these disciples would not know this particular saying of John, but Luke probably
Page 2819
Buy this book at Logos.com