understand one another and cannot therefore work together on creating a human society which would have no need of the creator God. Now, Luke is implying, with the day of Pentecost this curse is itself overturned; in other words, God is dramatically signalling that his promises to Abraham are being fulfilled, and the whole human race is going to be addressed with the good news of what has happened in and through Jesus. (The summary of the message in verse 11 is that it concerned ‘God’s powerful deeds’;