The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, Volume 4: The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting (Biblia.com)

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The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, vol. 4: Palestinian Setting is devoted to a series of studies of those parts of the narrative of Acts that are specifically set in Palestine. The geographical, political, cultural, social, and religious aspects of first-century Jewish Palestine are all explored in order to throw light on Luke’s account of the Palestinian origins of early...

Twelve, but a change in the constitution of the Jerusalem church leadership. Both of the interpretations of the appearance of the elders in Acts 11:30 which we have so far discussed neglect the connection which Luke establishes between this reference to the elders and the immediately succeeding narrative of the fate of two leading members of the Twelve in the persecution of Herod Agrippa I (12:1–19). This connection, we shall now show, requires the third interpretation: that Luke introduces the elders

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