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The approach of this commentary is to ask how ancient Mediterranean auditors would have heard Acts when it was read in their presence. To be successful Talbert divides this approach into two parts: how Acts would have been heard in its precanonical context and in its canonical context. He examines Acts thematically from the perspective of preparing for the church’s Mission to fulfilling the...

Luke believes, fulfills the highest hopes of the Jews and ideals of the Greeks and Romans. It is this aspect of the Lukan portrayal of wealth that one finds in vv. 27–30. The purpose of the sharing in 11:27–30 is the furtherance of unity in the Messianist community (cf. Isa 58:7). The movement of the narrative in Acts 8–11 has been like waves of an incoming tide, each story pushing ahead toward the ultimate limit. So in ch. 8 the word goes first to the Samaritans and then to the Ethiopian eunuch.
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