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Acts |
 The Acts of the Apostles (lat. Actus Apostolorum) is a book of the
Christian Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. It is commonly
referred to as simply Acts.
Acts tells the story of the Apostolic Age of the Early Christian church, with
particular emphasis on the ministry of the Twelve Apostles and of Paul of
Tarsus. The early chapters, set in Jerusalem, discuss Jesus' Resurrection and
Great Commission, his Ascension with a prophecy to return, the start of the
Twelve Apostles' ministry, and the Day of Pentecost. The later chapters discuss
Paul's conversion, his ministry, and finally his arrest and imprisonment and
trip to Rome.
It is almost universally agreed that the author of Acts also wrote the Gospel of
Luke. In fact, "the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles originally
constituted a two-volume work." See also Luke-Acts. In some editions of
the Bible, Luke-Acts has been presented as a single book. The traditional
view is that both books were written c. 60, though most scholars, believing the
Gospel to be dependent (at least) on Mark's gospel, view the book(s) as having
been written at a later date, sometime between 70 and 100.
Scholars are about evenly divided on whether [the] attribution to Luke [the
companion of Paul] should be accepted as historical.
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