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Acts leaves no stone unturned as it brings every feature of interest and debate about the book of Acts to our attention. Careful and accurate, this incisive exploration of Luke’s account of the events following the resurrection will shed light on cultural and political realities at the time the church was in its infancy.

belongings with one another. They made this their practice. The verb is in the imperfect and could be rendered “they kept on having all things (in) common.” Spirituality for these Christians was inseparable from social responsibility (see Deut. 15:4f.; cf. Acts 6:1–6; 11:28; 20:33–35; 24:17; Luke 19:8). The whole thing appears to have been an ad hoc arrangement, but a necessary one for all that. The poverty prevailing in Palestine in the first century is almost unimaginable, but the already desperate
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