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If ever there was a hostile environment for the gospel, it was the strife-torn ethnically diverse backwater of the Roman Empire known as Palestine following the ascension of Jesus. In the sequel to his Gospel, Luke tells how the Holy Spirit transformed a ragtag band of believers into a unified, world-engaging church. Beginning from Jerusalem, they made converts throughout Judea, Samaria and the...

Preview of Acts (1:6–11)* The disciples’ question Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?—which they asked repeatedly (NIV indicates only one asking)—was most natural for Jews to address to the resurrected Messiah. Central to Old Testament faith was the conviction that God would in the end time fully restore his people to their inheritance in the land, where they would live securely without foreign domination (Jer 16:15; 23:8; 50:19; Hos 11:11; Joel 3:17). In response
Acts 1:6–11
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