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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...

in Jerusalem the gospel that he had been preaching to the Gentiles; and James, Cephas, and John “added nothing to it” (Gal 2:6). This Pauline report corresponds to what Luke recounts in the first part of Acts 15 (vv 4–12). Those whom Paul had labeled “false brethren” (Gal 2:4) now become “some from the party of the Pharisees who had become believers” (Acts 15:5), who advocate the circumcision of Gentile converts. The issue is finally settled, after Peter speaks on the matter, citing his own experience;
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