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other humorous way. The word here for lad, the young man,

Pice in Greek indicates he, it's likely he was somewhere

between eight and 14 years old, so preteen or teenager.

And you know, it sort of lends itself to some comic

discussion, comic relief, that sort of thing. I've never

heard it preach though for what it really is the way it

really functions. And that is it plays a significant role

in telegraphing Paul's apostolic authority. And this is a

theme we've seen before in Acts where Luke will write

something, either include an event or write something in a

certain way so that for the reader, again, or the listener,

the alert reader and the listener, will be thinking about

something Paul is doing or saying, and will sort of

instinctively or intuitively see certain things as mirror

imaging of other apostles, namely Peter. And that is

designed again to cast Paul in the same role to put Paul in

the same status. And you say, well, what does Paul need that?

What does Luke need to do that? Well, you know, think about Paul

Paul began his career as a persecutor, essentially a

terrorist of the of the early church. And so, you know, this is

something that again, Luke probably thinks needs to be done

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