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The mysterious presence of Jesus haunts the whole story of Acts. Jesus is announced as King and Lord, not as an increasingly distant memory but as a living and powerful reality, a person who can be known and loved, obeyed and followed, a person who continues to act within the real world. We call the book “The Acts of the Apostles” but we should think of it as “The Acts of Jesus: Part Two” These...

fundamental to his whole book and his whole view of the world. First, everything is based on the resurrection of Jesus. In the last chapter of his Gospel, Luke described some of the scenes in which Jesus met his followers after being raised from the dead: he was really alive, richly alive, in a transformed body that could eat and drink as well as walk and talk but which seemed to have … some different properties. His body could, for instance, appear and disappear, and come and go through locked doors.
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