The descent of the Spirit was not about the Spirit. It was about Jesus. The Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus who came to inspire preaching about Jesus and convert people to become Christians (not Pneumatics or Holy-Spirit-ites). The Spirit came from Jesus, and that is where Peter wants to take his audience. So we saw last time that the coming of the Spirit brings the last days and their eschatological judgment and salvation. But today we will further see that the Spirit came from Jesus, and in particular from Jesus because of all that Jesus did on earth — life, death, resurrection, ascension. The Spirit would not have come without the events recorded in the gospel.
