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Acts: A Bible Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

When we want to know about the life of Christ, we can look to four different inspired records: the Gospels. But Luke alone gives us the biblical history of the next thirty years: the book of Acts. Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection offer the finished work of Christ. Yet, Jesus was just beginning his ministry of reaching the world. In Acts 1:8, Jesus told his followers, “You will be my witnesses...

2 PENTECOST Acts 2:1–47 Without the coming of the Holy Spirit, there would be no Acts of the Apostles. The first believers might have had patience to wait in their upper room for weeks, possibly even months. But had the Holy Spirit not come upon them, in time they would have returned to their homes bewildered and disillusioned. The Holy Spirit, living in and transforming the core of believers, enabled the astounding progress of the early church. Without the coming of the Holy Spirit, you would not
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