ActsWestminster John Knox Press, 1988 |
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... beginnings , plots , style , coher- ence , and worthy conclusions , the same way in which a story deals with life . Scripture is the story of a particular people to whom certain peculiar events occurred . The events are ren- dered in a ...
... beginnings , plots , style , coher- ence , and worthy conclusions , the same way in which a story deals with life . Scripture is the story of a particular people to whom certain peculiar events occurred . The events are ren- dered in a ...
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... beginning Matthias is selected to replace Judas and there follows not a word about the others of the Twelve . James merits only one line ( 12 : 2 ) and John receives little more attention . Peter and Paul are depicted as the pre ...
... beginning Matthias is selected to replace Judas and there follows not a word about the others of the Twelve . James merits only one line ( 12 : 2 ) and John receives little more attention . Peter and Paul are depicted as the pre ...
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... beginning , with the book's own statement of purpose to Theophilus ( 1 : 1-5 ) ? Acts claims that it is kerygma — a procla- mation of what has happened . This proclamation or witness is in direct continuity with the Gospel of Luke ( 1 ...
... beginning , with the book's own statement of purpose to Theophilus ( 1 : 1-5 ) ? Acts claims that it is kerygma — a procla- mation of what has happened . This proclamation or witness is in direct continuity with the Gospel of Luke ( 1 ...
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... beginning of Acts Judas betrays his Lord , disciples lie to one another ( 5 : 1-11 ) , and there is bitter controversy over the inclusion of gentiles . At times Luke's account of the early church borders on the roman- tic and the ideal ...
... beginning of Acts Judas betrays his Lord , disciples lie to one another ( 5 : 1-11 ) , and there is bitter controversy over the inclusion of gentiles . At times Luke's account of the early church borders on the roman- tic and the ideal ...
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... beginning , " " accurately , " and in " an orderly account . " We are therefore quite justified in interpreting Luke as an organizer and interpreter of actual history , but also as a preacher and artist who is both a careful collector ...
... beginning , " " accurately , " and in " an orderly account . " We are therefore quite justified in interpreting Luke as an organizer and interpreter of actual history , but also as a preacher and artist who is both a careful collector ...
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Page 56 - John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good tidings preached to them : and blessed is he whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in Me.
Page 191 - I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this undertaking is of men, it will fail; 39 but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!
Page 86 - But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Page 161 - If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Page 36 - Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him.
Page 161 - Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
Page 168 - For rulers are not a terror to good conduct but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good.
Page 58 - And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what ye ought to say.
Page 97 - I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.