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Luke wrote Acts as a continuation of his gospel. In this book Luke recorded the growth of the early church after Jesus ascended to heaven. The first part of the book records the growth of the church in and around Jerusalem. Luke goes on to record the apostle Paul’s conversion and the spread of the gospel throughout the Roman world.

dialect of Galilee, which they might have expected the apostles to speak. How could the natives of a small and rustic region speak in the languages of many nations? What the people heard confused them. Some people say that the miracle of Pentecost was not in the apostles’ speech but in the people’s hearing. But verse 4 says that the apostles spoke “in other tongues.” The speaking was the miracle, not the hearing. The apostles’ speech was not babbling, which the hearers then interpreted. It was a
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