Acts is the story of God’s grace flooding out to the world. Nothing is more prominent in Acts than the spread of the gospel.1 Jesus promises a geographic expansion at the outset, and Acts follows the news of his death and resurrection as it spreads from a small group of disciples in Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and the faraway capital of Rome. Through the repeated preaching of the gospel2 to different people groups, the gospel of grace draws them in, constitutes
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