of Luke-Acts, the two-volume work seen as a whole.1 Unquestionably, Pentecost is the highpoint, the pivotal event of the entire apostolic history that Luke surveys in Acts. To reinforce this point further and at the same time to clarify and bring out explicitly the balance that needs to be maintained here: Pentecost is coordinate in a particularly intimate and closely connected way with the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ; Pentecost is joined inextricably with these other events. Death,
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