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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...

Elisha asked him for a double share of his spirit. Elijah responded that this request would be granted only if Elisha saw him being taken into heaven. Elisha did see Elijah taken up in a flaming chariot, and consequently he received Elijah’s spirit and power to work miracles. The apostles see Jesus being taken into heaven, recalling the confirming sign that Elisha had received. Readers can thus be assured that the apostles will receive Jesus’ Spirit and work miracles as Jesus did in the Gospel. Likewise
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