<p>11:24 <em>For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit</em>- He was the right person to exhort the new converts to retain the gift of the Spirit, because he had done so himself, and was full of it. We also see that being full of the Spirit involved some personal effort- his 'goodness' was related to his being full of the Spirit. The gift is given by grace- but must be retained by our wilful decision to abide with the Lord.</p><p><em>And many people were added to the Lord</em>- Luke likes to use this word &quot;added&quot;. In 2:41,47 we read of converts being added to the church; here, they are added to the Lord. He is His church. The word <em>prostithemi</em> means literally to lay beside; it is used in describing how David was buried, being laid beside his fathers (13:36). For a convert to be laid beside the Lord suggests baptism, with all its symbolism of death and burial together with the Lord.</p>