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Christ the King.
All things common.
Possessions sold.
The Lord added those that
were being saved (R.V.).
B1
3:1 to 4:22.
Pentecost
The miracle of healing.
symbolized
The gate
called `Beautiful'.
Moses a type of Christ.
Prison for Peter.
We cannot but speak.
Threatened: let go.
A2
4:23 to 5:11.
Pentecost
Signs and wonders.
repeated
David's testimony.
The kings of the earth rebel.
Place shaken.
Filled with holy spirit.
All things common.
Possessions sold
`part of price kept back'.
Great fear on the church.
B2
5:12 -42.
Pentecost
Miracles of healing.
withstood
Solomon's Porch.
Prison for Peter.
We ought to obey God
rather than men.
Beaten: Let go.
A3
6:1 -7.
Pentecost
The ministry of the deacons;
extended
`Full of Holy Spirit'.
B3
6:8 to 8:1.
Pentecost
Moses a type of Christ.
rejected
Stephen stoned.
The introduction of Saul
strikes
the first note in
Israel's rejection.
Let us now return to Peter's explanation of what the happenings on the
day of Pentecost really meant. Here we are at a disadvantage, for most of us
who know anything at all about Pentecost have received that knowledge through
tradition. We were sure that it was a feast of the Church; we were convinced
that on the day of Pentecost the Church was brought into being; we were
positive that there were gathered together on that day a multitude of both
Jews
and Gentiles who, by having all things in common, gave expression to the
truth of the One Body and its fellowship. Yet all these fondly held views
vanish in the light of actual truth, for Acts 2 knows nothing of a feast of
the Church; it knows nothing of the unity in which there is neither Greek nor
Jew; it gives no countenance to the idea that a single Gentile, other than a
proselyte, listened to Peter on that momentous day: