This chapter deals with the message of Paul summarized by Luke and other gospel to explain specific acts and purpose for his missions. Schnabel starts with the message to Jewish audiences in Acts 13:16-41, which is the first and the longest Paul’s sermon that Luke reports. Luke divided this sermon into three parts: review of salvation history, proclamation of the significance of Jesus, and call to repentance.
In the first part of the sermon, Paul addresses Israel’s ancestors to show that the history of Israel was planned and ordered by God for preparing the Savior of Israel. Then Paul preached the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus was to fulfill God’s promise, in the second part of the message.…show more content… Not only similarities of God and Pagan gods, but also contradictions between two: unknown god, God dwells in us, He does not live in mad-made hoses of worship, and the deity is not an image formed by an art.
To the Jews, Paul proclaimed Jesus of Nazareth is the messianic Savior and the Lord, whom people were waiting. Luke mentioned, “about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance” (Acts 28:31).
Paul uses the terms to identify Christ: Christos (Christ) and Kyrios (the Lord). Moreover, in order to clarify Jesus is different than Augustus, who was a “savior” and a “son of god” and “lord,” Paul demonstrate Jesus is the crucified Savior. Jesus’ crucifixion is not only religious matter, but also political problem. “The proclamation of Jesus the crucified Christos, the messianic Savior, confronted Greek and Roman listeners with convictions that stood in stark contrast to the ideology of the city (the Greek polis) with its egalitarian structure that ultimately excluded the weak and the aliens” (189).
After teaching the basic things, such as the true identification of God and Jesus, he started confront the significant matters at churches: bodily resurrection, ethics (lawsuits between fellow Christians), and helping the
