Jensens survey of the old testament adam 428
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each paragraph. Read enough to get the feel
of the book. If possible, read aloud. What
are your impressions? Is there much action
in Acts? Are there many sermons? many
characters? Have any words or verses stood
out as being prominent, from this scanning?
C. SURVEYING THE INDIVIDUAL
SEGMENTS
First note on Chart 52, page 214, how the
text of Acts is divided into segments. Each
segment begins at verse 1 with the
exceptions shown below. Read the Bible text
to justify these beginnings:
1. 8:1b — The phrase of 8:1a, “And Saul
was in hearty agreement with putting him to
death” is appropriately associated with the
end of the Stephen story.
2. 9:32 — Chapter 9 gives the story of
Paul’s conversion. Verse 31 is a tting
conclusion to that story; verse 32 picks up
the Peter account again, therefore it seems
logical to begin a new segment here.
3. 15:36 — Paul’s second missionary
journey begins at this point, therefore it is
well to make a division here.
4. 18:23 — The start of the third
missionary journey is almost obscured in the
narrative. A new division (and therefore new
segment) is necessary here.
5. 21:18 — The point that one chooses to
distinguish between the end of the third
journey and the subsequent events at
Jerusalem is rather arbitrary. We shall use
21:18 as the beginning of the new section.
Mark the above-mentioned dividing points
in your Bible, to help your survey study.
Now quickly read each segment of Acts.
Record segment titles on a worksheet similar
to those used in your earlier studies (e.g.,
Chart 45, Segment Titles of John). When
you have chosen titles for all the segments
of Acts, scan the list and try to visualize the
progression of the narrative from beginning
to end. You now will begin to sense a
movement or ow in the narrative of Acts.
Record
any
new
observations
and
impressions of the book.
Your survey so far has been groundwork.
From this point on, the structure of Acts is
what you will examine.
D. SEEING HOW THE BOOK HOLDS
TOGETHER
Having seen the content of individual
chapters (or more accurately, segments),
your task now is to determine Luke’s
narrative organization. It would be an
oversimpli cation to say that because Acts is
history Luke simply followed the chronology
of events and recorded them in diary
fashion. Remember that Acts does not
exhaustively
record
everything
that
transpired in the rst decades of the early
church. Luke, inspired of the Holy Spirit,
selected the events and items that he would
include to best serve the book’s purposes.
Selectivity and nondiarylike composition,
plus the inclusion of many sermons and
addresses, happily a ord the potential of all
the beauty, interest, and appeal that can be
found in a true literary work.
This part of your study does not involve
another reading of the entire book of Acts as
such. Instead, you will nd that you must
continually page through the book or certain
sections of it as you proceed from subject to
subject. As you discover di erent parts of
the structure of Acts, record those on the
