Acts of the Apostles

C. K. Barrett FBA is Emeritus Professor of Divinity in the University of Durham and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

"Barrett's ICC volumes contain a vast amount of detail, especially textual and grammatical . . . excellent . . . represents the distillation of decades of reading and thinking and the writing of numerous articles on aspects of Acts that arose during the preliminary stages of preparing this commentary; his is a very detailed analysis of the Greek texts and the variants . . ."--Novum Testamentum, 2000

• Preface Commentaries Abbreviations Map INTRODUCTION I Text II Acts and its Author III Acts 1-14: Sources and Plan IV Acts as a Historical Source V Use and Interpretation VI Theology of Acts VII Conclusion COMMENTARY I Necessary Preliminary Steps (1.1.-26) II The Church in Jerusalem (2.1-5.42) III Problems and Persecution (6.1-8.3) IV Samaria and Beyond (8.4-40) V Saul the Evangelist (9.1-31) VI The First Preacher to the Gentiles (9.32-11.18) VII The Church Founded at Antioch (11.19-30) VIII Return to Jerusalem (12.1-25) IX Antioch Initiates the Wider Mission (13.1-14.28) X The Council in Jerusalem (15.1-35) XI Paul's Mission Breaks New Ground (15.36-18.23) XII The Mission Based on Ephesus (18.24-20.38) XIII Paul Returns to Jerusalem (21.1-22.29) XIV Paul and the Jews (22.30-23.35) XV Paul and the Romans (24.1-26.32) XVI Paul Reaches Rome (27.1-28.28) XVII Conclusion (28.29-31)