1:1 Luke connects Acts with his Gospel and claims that it is a comprehensive account of Jesus’s life and ministry from start to finish (1:2).
1:2 Luke informs his audience that his Gospel ended with Jesus’ ascension but includes Jesus’ final instructions to the Eleven, which Luke recounts in 1:3–8.
1:3 Luke recounts that the resurrected Jesus visited with the Eleven for forty days and reveals that the subject of their conversations was the kingdom of God.
he Promise of the Spirit Precedes the Law (3:1–4:7)
Paul has now come to the core of his argument. Why should the Galatians refuse the circumcision teachers’ demand that they be circumcised? Because through their baptism into Christ (3:26–29)
