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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

congregation may be taken as the subject. Some translations (see RSV, JB, Goodspeed) have left the text ambiguous. Although the JB has left the text ambiguous, the translators have given a footnote; “possibly a gesture of the community, cf. 13:1–3; more probably (v. 3) of the apostles.” The laying of hands was a gesture taken over by the Christian community from the Jewish community. It symbolized not only the giving of a responsibility but, what is more important, the imparting of strength and of
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