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William Willimon combines the latest findings in Lukan scholarship with he pastoral, educational, and theological concerns of the local church to provide a new interpretation of Acts. He bases his comment on the idea that the purpose of Acts was not to make Christianity acceptable to the Roman states but rather to preserve the integrity of the church against the onslaught of classical culture. ...

the manner of narration. It is the dawn of the day of Pentecost and the followers of Jesus are gathered to wait and to pray. The new day begins with an eruption of sounds from heaven and of wind (2:2). Things are coming loose, breaking open. Can it be the same wind which on the very first morning of all mornings swept across dark waters, the wind of creation (Gen. 1)? The wind is once again bringing something to life. What was first heard is then seen—tongues like fire (2:3). It is not until verse
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