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Luke's Acts: Passage Analysis

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For this assignment, I will be digging deeper into the themes and principles in Acts, chapter one, verses one through eleven, and using the information surrounding the text to dissect it. This passage of Scripture is the narrative story of the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven after his being raised from the dead and living with the disciples for forty days. In this essay, I will identify and explain the key themes in this Scripture and the other places they are mentioned in Luke’s writings, the words in the passage that are important to Luke and how he uses them elsewhere, and the development of characters in the passage and their functions. First, in these eleven verses about the ascension, key themes are found that can more deeply …show more content…

First, the theme of Jesus’ life on earth and ministry is describes in the first few verses, Luke states, “In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach… he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive” (Acts 1:1,3 New Living Translation). In Luke’s previous book, self-titled Luke, we learn almost everything about the life of Jesus on earth. His relationship with his Father, the disciples, and the people who were his peers are incredible to learn from as we discuss and understand the life and ministry of the author of our faith and the reason behind our salvation. The second key theme in this passage refers to the teachings he left with them in his last days. In Acts 1:3, Luke states, “During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles…and he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.” The disciples and those surrounding Jesus did not realize that he was about to leave, they were more concerned with the fact that he

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