elaborates his literary presentation of Jesus as Prophet. Jesus commissions his followers, but also in the most obvious sense predicts their future (1:8). The reader will learn from the subsequent story-line how this “programmatic prophecy” of Jesus is fulfilled, since the geographical arrangement of the narrative precisely matches his prediction. Three times already, the Holy Spirit has been mentioned: as working through Jesus’ selection and commission of his apostles (1:2), as the baptism that