The flow, feel, and meaning of the Book of Acts, and its relevance to Christian thought and life today, comes through unmistakably in this commentary. Undergraduate Bible students will find it both stimulating and understandable.
The text of the Book of Acts has been thoroughly outlined,and this provides the skeleton, the flesh for which is the commentary. Each verse receives comment. The reader who knows no Greek can comprehend the commentary; the reader who knows at least some Greek will find occasional reference to Greek words (always transliterated) and pervasive evidence of the author's study of the original text.Footnotes furnish ample documentation.
Luke, the author of Acts, gave the book a dual framework,according to the commentator: geographical and biographical. In the first twelve chapters, Palestine and Peter dominate; in the last sixteen, the Gentile world and Paul.More specifically, the commentary is divided into five parts:(1) introduction;(2) beginnings (the gospel in Jerusalem/Peter and Stephen); (3) ting the gospel in Judea and Samaria/Philip, Saul, and Per yi: (4) expansion (the gospel in the Gentile world/Barr
Paul, John Mark,"Silas, and Timothy); and (5) imprisnt (the gospel in Jerusalem,Caesarea, and Rome/Paui