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THE BOOK OF ACTS continues the story Luke began in his Gospel. Acts covers the thirty years after Jesus' resurrection and ascension (i.e., from A.D. 30 to 60). In that short time, the church was established and the gospel of salvation was taken throughout the Roman Empire-reaching all the way from Jerusalem to Rome. Those preaching the gospel, though ordinary people with human frailties and...

(Mary and Joseph’s other sons) did not believe he was the Messiah (John 7:5) and actually thought he was out of his mind (Mark 3:21–35). But Jesus’ resurrection must have convinced them otherwise. Jesus’ special appearance to James, one of his brothers, may have been an especially significant event in James’s conversion (see 1 Corinthians 15:7). This gathering may have included all of Jesus’ other brothers—Joses (or Joseph), Judas (or Jude) and Simon (see Matthew 13:55–56; Mark 6:3). Jesus’ sisters
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