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The book of Acts tells the story of what happened after the death and resurrection of Jesus. The book is filled with adventure and entertainment as Acts narrates God’s activity among his people and the world. In this book I explore one way of reading Acts that attends closely to the plotline of the book and seek to invite readers into the story that Acts tells. Along the way, I examine some of...

Luke’s “first account” written to Theophilus and serve to create some level of continuity between Acts and his Gospel. Luke immediately draws the reader’s attention to some form of continuity between the Gospel and Acts through his concise but effective use of the rhetorical technique of recapitulation.20 In brief summarizing form, Luke reminds the reader of some of the most important aspects of Jesus’s ministry and teaching. The reader of Acts, for example, is already familiar, by way of the Gospel,
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