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In The Acts of the Apostles: Spreading the Word, Lawrence Farley explores Acts as the sequel to Luke. He treats the book as an apology for the Christian faith as the fulfillment of Judaism, a Gospel for all peoples, a faith that poses no threat to Roman government or society, and the greatest adventure story of all time. In The Acts of the Apostles: Spreading the Word, Farley works from a literal...

was full of the Holy Spirit as a true prophet (6:5), and as a prophet, he stared into heaven and saw in a vision the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. It was as the Scripture said: young men were indeed seeing visions (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17). In ecstasy he said to them, “Behold, I observe the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”—doubtless standing to deliver heaven’s verdict on the innocence of Stephen (in antiquity judges normally delivered
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