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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...

One of the primary ways that humans discern the ways of God is through the interpretation of Israel’s sacred Scriptures. For example, Peter interprets the event whereby the Jews in Jerusalem are empowered to speak in different languages and dialects as the fulfillment of God’s promise in Joel 3 (LXX), namely, as the outpouring of God’s prophetic spirit on his people (2:1–13; 2:17–21). James, later the leader of the Jerusalem church, interprets the inclusion of non-Jews within
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