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The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The commentary on Acts is written in a readable style, drawing on the best new insights from a number of disciplines (narrative, archaeology, social scientific study, rhetorical analysis, and comparative studies) to provide the reader with the benefits of recent innovative ways of analyzing the text. In addition, Witherington provides detailed attention to major theological and historical issues:...

—v. 37).90 Yet Peter’s further words to the crowd differ considerably from those of John, and here we begin to see what would be distinctive about Christian baptism. Not the connection between repentance and baptism but the additional connection of baptism with the name of Jesus and the reception of the Holy Spirit sets Christian baptism apart. Baptism is to be done “in the name of Jesus,” which probably means that Jesus was named as the baptizing was being done, though it could mean with the authority
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