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Brimming with lavish, full-color photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It’s like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries await you that will snap the world of the New Testament into gripping immediacy. Things that seem...

They have had too much wine (2:13). The literal translation of this phrase from the Greek is, “they are filled with sweet wine.” Reversing his previous public denial of Jesus, Peter now stands up in front of this large crowd and boldly declares that Jesus is in fact the awaited Messiah of Israel and the sovereign Lord. He cites three passages from the Old Testament demonstrating that the Messiah would be a descendent of David, that he would rise from
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