Acts: Witnesses to the World (Biblia.com)

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God uses ordinary people like you and me. We easily identify with the people in Acts because Luke never allows us to forget their humanity. It's impossible to confuse Peter or Paul with fictional characters. No ancient novelist would ever have created men whose lives were characterized by such dramatic contradictions: the brash and blustering everyman who blossoms overnight into an elder...

then some precision may be exercised on the date of this event. The ascension of Jesus most probably occurred on Thursday, May 14, A.D. 33, ten days prior to the Jewish festival of Pentecost. The Greek term sunalizō, which most translations render as “gathering them together,” appears in the New Testament only here in Acts 1:4. A better translation may well be, “eating together with.” As mentioned previously, one of the “convincing proofs” of Jesus’ bodily resurrection was His ability to eat. However,

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