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Darrell Bock provides a thoroughly evangelical commentary on Acts in this volume. With extensive and current research from major works written in the last fifteen years and thoughtful chapter-by-chapter exegesis, Bock covers all aspects of the book of Acts—sociological, historical, and theological—for a deeper understanding of Acts. He also seeks to make his commentary readable and concise for...

and Mark 5:13, where it refers to plants choking other plants or to pigs drowning. This likely is a description of what happens with sacrifices or meals among Gentiles. The result of this form of death is that blood often is not drained from the animal (Gaventa 2003: 222). Philo (Spec. Laws 4.23 §§122–23) describes such a practice. The reference to blood appears to be drawn from Lev. 17:10–14 (Bietenhard, TDNT 6:457–58; also Gen. 9:4; Lev. 3:17; 7:26–27; 19:26; Deut. 12:16, 23, 25, 27; 15:23; 1 Sam.
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