address to Theophilus in the Prologue to his Gospel (Luke 1:1–4). In that first Prologue, Luke stresses the utter and absolute reliability of that Gospel. It is an account in which Theophilus may place his full confidence. In echoing that first Prologue here in Acts 1:1, Luke stresses the complete trustworthiness of the account to follow.7 In a single sentence, Luke summarizes the third Gospel: ‘I wrote about all the things that Jesus began to do and to teach.’ The focus of Luke’s Gospel, Luke says,
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