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The Edition
- Volume editor
- Daniel M. Doriani
- Series editor
- Richard D. Phillips, Philip Graham Ryken
Publication
- Publisher
- P&R Publishing
- Date published
- 15 February 2011
- Print status
- Out of print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Total pages
- 784 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9781596380486
- ISBN-10
- 1596380489
- LCCN
- 2010031987
- Copyright
- 2011
Reference
- Plagiarism check
- Flagged
- Notes
- Withdrawn from print by P&R in late 2018. An anonymous researcher sent the publisher evidence that the commentary carried substantial unattributed material from sermons preached by Sinclair B. Ferguson — catalogued here — some years before the book appeared. P&R's public statement described it as “unattributed content from sermons by another pastor” and said the lack of attribution appeared to result from unclear note-taking more than a decade before the commentary was written; Thomas's presbytery later admonished him for unintentional plagiarism. Paginated xvi + 784; retailers round to 800. Copies already sold remain in circulation, which is why the volume is catalogued rather than deleted. It is the third withdrawn commentary in this collection, after Köstenberger's BECNT John and O'Brien's Pillar Hebrews and Ephesians.
Contents
- Commentary
- Gazing into heaven (1:1-11)
- Then they were twelve again (1:12-26)
- Pentecostal fire! (2:1-13)
- The "this is that" sermon (2:14-41)
- How they love one another (2:42-47)
- Jumping for joy! (3:1-10)
- A New Testament sermon on an Old Testament text (3:11-26)
- The cost of discipleship (4:1-22)
- Praying boldly (4:23-31)
- Field of dreams (4:32-5:11)
- Prison break! (5:12-32)
- Leave these men alone! (5:33-42)
- Murmurings (6:1-7)
- Angelic Stephen (6:8-15)
- "Brothers and fathers, hear me" (7:1-53)
- Resisting the holy Spirit (7:1-53)
- The first Christian martyr (7:54-8:1)
- Preaching Christ in Samaria (8:lb-8)
- Buying your way to power (8:9-25)
- The great search (8:26-40)
- The conversion of Saul of Tarsus (9:1-19a)
- A basket case! (9:19b-31)
- "Tabitha cumi" (9:32-43)
- Pork-the other white meat! (10:9-23a)
- All change! (10:1-9,23b-48)
- Convincing the home church (11:1-18)
- Call them "Christians"! (11:19-30)
- The great escape (12:l-19a)
- Church growth-New Testament style (12:19b-25)
- Catching the vision for missions (13:1-12)
- Preaching Jesus (13:13-52)
- A tale of three cities (14:1-20)
- Mission report (14:21-28)
- Cutting cost! (15:1-21)
- The "letter" of the law? (15:22-35)
- Brotherly strife! (15:36-41)
- "Come over and help us" (16:1-15)
- Prison time (16:16-40)
- Disturbing the peace (17:1-9)
- How to listen to a sermon (17:10-15)
- Jerusalem and Athens (17:16-34)
- Do not be afraid (18:1-17)
- Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos (18:18-28)
- The Gospel comes to Ephesus (19:1-20)
- City riot (19:21-41)
- A deadly sermon! (20:1-12)
- A solemn charge (20:13-38)
- "The Lord's will be done" (21:1-16)
- "Told you so!" (21:17-26)
- In chains (21:27-36)
- "Fathers and brethren" (22:1-30)
- "I am a Pharisee" (23:1-11)
- The conspiracy (23:12-35)
- The procrastinator (24:1-27)
- Porcius Festus (25:1-12)
- King Agrippa-almost persuaded? (25:13-26:32)
- Peril at sea (27:1-44)
- Rome at last (28:1-16)
- Preaching Christ from prison (28:17-31)
Sources
- [1]WORLD — “A matter of attribution” (March 2019), on the withdrawal and P&R's statement
- [2]Best Commentaries — Acts [Withdrawn], Derek W. H. Thomas
- [3]The Daily Genevan — “An Appeal For An Explanation: Derek Thomas, P&R, and Plagiarism” (December 2018), with side-by-side examples
- [4]Wikipedia — Derek Thomas (theologian)