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The Acts of the Apostles: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

For anyone interested in the origins of Christianity, Joseph A. Fitzmyer’s The Acts of the Apostles is indispensable. Beginning with the Ascension of Christ into heaven, and ending with Paul proclaiming the kingdom of God from a prison in Rome, this New Testament narrative picks up where the Gospel of Luke left off. The Acts of the Apostles is indeed a journey of nearly epic proportions—and one...

(12:25). At the inspiration of the Spirit, the church in Antioch sets apart Barnabas and Saul for missionary work (13:2–3). (143) Luke has organized Saul’s missionary work into three segments, or three missionary journeys. Although, as J. Knox once wrote, “If you had stopped Paul on the streets of Ephesus and said to him, ‘Paul, which of your missionary journeys are you on now?’ he would have looked at you blankly without the remotest idea of what was in your mind” (Chapters, 41–42). The division
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