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The Word Went On

This video sets Acts 1–28 to music and film, in 5 min 27 sec. Watch it here, then read what the passage covers and carry on into the study and the songs drawn from the same Scripture.

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The Word Went On

Acts 1–28 · 5:27

The Book of Acts begins with people who have seen the risen Jesus and still must wait. Forty days of proof and instruction do not make the apostles self-sufficient, and Jesus answers their question about Israel's restoration by redirecting them from a timetable to a commission. They are to become witnesses after the Holy Ghost comes upon them, with a geography stretching from Jerusalem outward.

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Acts 1: The witnesses wait, and the empty place is filled

The Book of Acts begins with people who have seen the risen Jesus and still must wait. Forty days of proof and instruction do not make the apostles self-sufficient, and Jesus answers their question about Israel's restoration by redirecting them from a timetable to a commission. They are to become witnesses after the Holy Ghost comes upon them, with a geography stretching from Jerusalem outward. His ascension does not end that work; it defines the interval in which it must be done. Back in Jerusalem, the remaining apostles pray with a larger company that includes women, Mary, and Jesus' brethren. Judas's betrayal is neither hidden nor allowed to leave the apostolic circle permanently broken. Peter brings the vacancy into the open through the Psalms, and Matthias is chosen from men qualified to testify to the whole course of Jesus' ministry and resurrection.

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Acts 2: The risen Jesus pours out the promised Spirit

Pentecost makes the promised Spirit publicly audible in languages the gathered hearers recognize, and the first reactions already divide between wonder, questions, and mockery. Peter refuses to leave the event unexplained. Joel gives him language for the outpouring, while the Psalms let him argue that David's words reach beyond David's own occupied grave to the risen and exalted Jesus. The sound in Jerusalem is tied to authority in heaven: the Jesus who was crucified is proclaimed as Lord and Christ and as the one who has poured out what the crowd can see and hear. The hearers' question, “what shall we do?”, moves the chapter from interpretation to response. Repentance, baptism, forgiveness, and the gift of the Holy Ghost are joined to a promise extending beyond the immediate crowd. The chapter then turns three thousand additions into a daily life of teaching, fellowship, meals, prayer, generosity, and continuing need.

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Acts 3: A man stands, and Peter refuses the credit

A man carried daily to the temple gate suddenly walks into the temple under his own strength, and the familiarity of his former place makes the change impossible to treat as anonymous rumor. Peter refuses the attention that immediately gathers around himself and John. Neither apostolic power nor personal holiness explains what the crowd has seen; the name of the risen Jesus does. From there the speech becomes larger than the healing. Peter names the rejection of the Holy and Just One, acknowledges that ignorance played a part, and still addresses his hearers as people to whom repentance and forgiveness remain open. The restored body becomes a sign inside a wider expectation of refreshing and restitution rather than the completion of everything promised. Moses' promised prophet and Abraham's promised blessing finally meet in Peter's appeal, where blessing is defined not as a stream of impressive benefits but as people being turned from their iniquities.

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