Acts 1:1-2 (KJV) Begun and Done

Acts 1:1-2 (KJV)

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

I’m looking at the words “began” and “until.”

Jesus began to do and to teach, but His ministry and His message were not well received.

At first, multitudes flocked to hear Him. But it was soon apparent that their interest was shallow and with little eternal heart.

• They liked the healings
• They liked the free food
• They liked the hope of defeating Rome

But they had little or no interest in the spiritual nature of His ministry. They were not interested in being party to His work of seeking and saving. They did not want to die to self, live to God and follow Him.

The Jewish leadership was even less interested than that. They correctly saw Jesus as in direct opposition to their agenda. In their eyes, it was either Him or them. Jesus, at all costs, must go.

So he had only begun to do and to teach when He was taken, tried, and killed.

His life was only thirty-three years. He had begun to do and to teach only three years until He was taken.

But Jesus said in John 17, “I have finished the work,” and on the cross, “It is finished.”

They did not, could not prevent Jesus from finishing what He began to do and to teach.

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Acts 1:1-2 (KJV) Begun and Done