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The book of Acts is theological history, showing how Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection informed the life, teaching, and ministry of the early church. God’s power is displayed through the Spirit in the outward spread and influence of the gospel. We see how God’s Old Testament promises are fulfilled in the church, composed of both Jews and Gentiles. It is an open-ended story, so its history and...

includes the same themes as his speech at Pentecost. He does not take credit for the healing. The miracle points only to Jesus’s power. Peter bears witness to the foundational facts of Jesus’s earthly ministry: his death at the hands of his enemies, his resurrection and glorification by the power of God, and the promise of his return. 3:13–15 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.… You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead.
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