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In the first two chapters, a lot has happened – Jesus has ascended to heaven with instructions that his disciples are to be his witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth; the disciples have received the Holy Spirit, and through the subsequent preaching by Peter, 3000 were added to their number.  They have been meeting together in the temple courts and in homes, devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to fellowship, to eating together, to prayer, selling their possessions so that they can care for all the needs that come their way.  And not only are they seeing miracles done, the last line of chapter 2 says that God added to their number daily those who were being saved.  Lord, we pray that this might be so in our church as well.