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Carefully mine the New Testament gospels and the book of Acts to understand what the Holy Spirit meant in the lives of early believers with Craig Keener. Christianity did not arise in a vacuum, but rather it appropriated, modified, and utilized the Jewish understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. By understanding the world in which Christianity emerged, we can better understand the earliest...

While paraphrasing differently for the sake of variation,5 Acts 1:4–11 recapitulates Luke 24:44–53, following a practice sometimes applied in two-volume works.6 Jesus’ primary instructions to the disciples before he ascended to heaven were to wait for the empowerment of the Spirit so they could carry out Jesus’ mission of proclaiming him to all peoples (Luke 24:46–49; Acts 1:4–8). The eschatological character of both the Spirit and the kingdom in the relevant circles of
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