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Fifteen years in the making, this comprehensive commentary by David Peterson offers thorough exegesis and exposition of the Acts of the Apostles, drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of narrative criticism and theological analysis. It incorporates insights into historical-social background, and investigates why Luke presents his material in the way he does. In view of how long the book...

primitive liturgical sequence, implying that their meetings regularly involved instruction, (table) fellowship, then the Lord’s Supper and prayers.103 However, vv. 44–47 appear to be an expansion on this initial summary, and some of the things mentioned there clearly took place at different times and in different places. Luke is giving a description of the ministry of these disciples to one another in a variety of contexts, not simply telling us what happened when they gathered for what we might
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