Exegesis Acts 11 1 19
The Acts of the Apostles is the lynch pin of the New Testament. ... Acts serves as an opportunity to supply the readers of the bible with a sense in which Paul and the other writers wrote during this period. This Exegesis is intended to focus on Acts 1:1-18. ... I settled upon one that spoke to my heart, that being Acts 11:1-18. After settling upon Acts 11:1-18, I set about reading the books of Acts totally again and again until I got the feeling of the book and what the Author of Acts was trying to say. ... The author of Acts seems to be the same Author that wrote Luke. ... In fact, according to Bruce’s Commentary on the Book of Acts reveals the external evidence goes back to the decades of the Second century. ... The evidence that whoever wrote the book of Acts had to have a had habit of using vocabulary consistent with that of a Greek Physician and the traditional Luke would have been familiar with just that. (Blaiklock 26) Acts and Luke were both written to a certain Theophilius in Luke 1:3 and Acts 1:1: Yet the clear identification of who this person was has never been revealed. ... He displayed different instances in which the government was favorable to Christianity The final possibility according to Will Barclay’s The Acts of The Apostles is perhaps this Luke was a slave. ... The preface of Luke 1:3 marks a higher level of literary culture than almost anything else in the New Testament (with the exception of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in antiquity Sometimes ascribed to the same author). “It differs from ordinary prefaces because it does not state who the author is; (1) the occasion of the work, (2) its reliance on trustworthy materials, and (3) its insistence upon the competence of the author. ... ” (Grant 15) Luke seems to have three main emphases in writing Acts. ... These two underlay the main purpose of showing how the church worked to fulfill Jesus’ parting statement “You shall be witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the Earth” (NIV Luke 1:8) Luke wanted to show that as the Disciples and the converts spread out to spread the good word. And to a major extent that’s what happened here in here in Luke 11:1-18. ... In Acts 11:1 Peter is coming back from the conversion of Cornelius and news has spread to the apostles and the brothers that Gentiles were receiving the word of God. ... (Neil 117) Verse 11,12,13, and 14 all relate how Peter found the three men looking for him and took six of his the Christians from the are to be an eyewitness. ... It also seems that the mentioning of the angel was not for the Jerusalem audience but for the readers of Acts. ... The Acts Of the Apostles. ... The Acts of the Apostles. ... Acts An Expositional Commentary. ... The Acts of the Apostles : an historical commentary Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1959 Blunt, A.