The Chiasm of Acts 1:1-13
A chiasm is a literary structure where vocabulary of the first section of a passage is repeated in reverse order in the second. The center of the chiasm is typically the climax of the passage. In Acts 1:1-13 the center and climax is the words of Jesus, “John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now” (Acts i:5).
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Mike Rusten grew up in Plymouth, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. God drew him to himself at a Billy Graham crusade when Mike was a junior high boy, and life was never to be the same. He graduated from Princeton University where he was president of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship.
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