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What message was the author of Acts seeking to convey, and what would the original audience have understood? How is God using Acts to speak to believers today? In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, respected New Testament scholar William Kurz offers a close reading and explanation of the entire narrative of Acts, grounded in the original Greek but keyed to the NAB for...

exercise the role of the Servant of the Lord. The theme of the servant is rooted in the biblical depiction of Moses as God’s servant in the exodus (Num 12:7). The prophet Isaiah develops this theme, describing a humble Servant of the Lord to whom God says: “It is too little … for you to be my servant, / to raise up the tribes of Jacob, / and restore the survivors of Israel; / I will make you a light to the nations, / that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth” (Isa 49:6). Luke understands
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