Naked Bible 38: Acts 2:22-41

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 February 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode will focus on two items of biblical theology that are controversial in biblical study: How the New Testament writers / apostles quoted the Old Testament The meaning of Acts 2:38 Of the two, the second is more familiar to Christians due to denominational debates about baptism. Acts 2:38 needs to be interpreted in light of the new covenant context that Luke has been framing since early in Chapter 1 and that we’ve been talking about in the preceding episodes. The first issue is less known because many Bible readers never bother to compare what they read in the New Testament to the Old Testament, even when Old Testament passages are being quoted. Neglecting this simple exercise stunts one’s understanding of biblical theology, and leads to interpretations that are often out of context and idiosyncratic.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Negative Bible Podcast Episode 38, Acts 2, verse 22 through 41.
0:29.5	I'm your resident, Jolaman, Trace Strickland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:34.9	Hey, Mike, how are you? Good, how are you? I'm doing pretty good, cold, but I'm doing good.
0:40.1	Yeah, well, I'm just glad to be home. I spent two weeks traveling on the road, like, you know,
0:46.8	I'm just thinking, boy, I can't wait to feel like me again. I like routine. I hear you.
0:53.0	Well, I guess we're going to continue on with Acts 2. Yes, we are.
0:57.4	Acts 2 will start in verse 22, and we'll go through verse 41, and again, just pick out a few
1:03.8	things for discussion. So for listeners, if you have your Bible handy, if not, that's fine.
1:10.3	I'm going to read through the text again, but if you have it, we're opening to Acts 2, 22,
1:16.5	which reads, men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God,
1:24.2	with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him and your midst.
1:28.4	As you yourselves know, this Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God,
1:36.3	you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. I'll stop there. That's verses 22 and 23.
1:42.4	Of course, we're continuing on in Peter's sermon in Acts 2 after the Spirit has come.
1:48.0	And again, all the events of Pentecost that we're used to hearing, that's probably, you know,
1:53.3	fresh in most of the listeners' minds. And this section of Peter's sermon, what he's going to do
2:00.4	is he's going to get into the Old Testament. So today, we're going to look at
2:05.4	how Peter uses the Old Testament. It's not quite what you'd expect, and then also touch on
2:11.2	the controversial verse Acts 2, 38. But here in these first two verses, you'll notice in verse 23,
2:17.8	I just wanted to make a quick observation and move on to Peter's use of the Old Testament.
2:22.8	Peter says, this Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God,
2:27.5	you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. The point that I want you to sort of pick out
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