Some have suggested that the title " Acts " be interpreted as " The Acts of the Holy Spirit " or even " The Acts of Jesus ," since 1: 1 gives the impression that these acts were set forth as an account of what Jesus continued to do and teach, Jesus himself being the principal actor.

“ Acts, then is a continuation of the Lucan Gospel, not in the sense that it relates what Jesus continued to do, but how his followers carried out his commission under the guidance of his Spirit .” Thus, part of the answer to the purpose of Acts is that Luke is writing to Theophilus, who is also mentioned in Luke 1: 3, in order to explain to him the occurrences that take place in the church that fulfill Jesus ’ promise to his disciples that “ you will be baptized with, the Holy Spirit not many days from now ” ( Acts 1: 5 ).

Here Acts 12: 21-23 is largely parallel to Antiquities 19. 8. 2 ; ( 2 ) the cause of the Egyptian pseudo-prophet in Acts 21: 37f and in Josephus ( War 2. 13. 5 ; Antiquities 20. 8. 6 ); ( 3 ) the curious resemblance as to the order in which Theudas and Judas of Galilee are referred to in both ( Acts 5: 36f ; Antiquities 20. 5. 1 ).

Acts 1: 1-2a from the 14th century Minuscule 223

This geographic structure is foreshadowed in Acts 1: 8, where Jesus says " You shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem ( chs.

The New Testament verses typically referenced are Matthew 26: 30 ; Acts 16: 25 ; Romans 15: 9 ; 1 Corinthians 14: 15 ; Ephesians 5: 19 ; Colossians 3: 16 ; Hebrews 2: 12, 13: 15 ; James 5: 13, which reveal a command for all Christians to sing.

* 1 Thessalonians 5: 2, 2 Peter 3: 10, Acts 2: 20, 1 Corinthians 5: 5, 2 Corinthians 1: 14

Barnabas is one of the first teachers of the church at Antioch ( Acts 13: 1 ).

Returning from this first missionary journey to Antioch, they were again sent up to Jerusalem to consult with the church there regarding the relation of Gentiles to the church ( Acts 15: 2 ; Galatians 2: 1 ).

Also, in Acts 1: 5, Jesus assured his disciples that they too would soon be baptised in holy spirit: " For John truly baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

Authorship has also occasionally been attributed to the apostle James the Great, brother of John the Evangelist and son of Zebedee The letter does mention persecutions in the present tense ( 2: 6 ), and this is consistent with the persecution in Jerusalem during which James the Great was martyred ( Acts 12: 1 ).

To this end he " added some touches where surviving tradition seemed to contain trustworthy additional particulars ," such as the statement that Paul taught in the lecture-room of Tyrannus " from the fifth to the tenth hour " ( added to Acts 19: 9 ).

A typical example can be found in 2 Chronicles 9: 29 and references the work Acts of Solomon and, additionally, several unknown prophets, such as Ahijah the Shilonite and the seer Ido.

Longenecker, " Acts of the Apostles ", in volume 9 of The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Frank E. Gaebelein, editor ( Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Corporation, 1976 – 1984 ), page 476.

Fung holds, then, that Paul's apostolic mission began almost immediately in Damascus ( Acts 9: 20 ).

In the lists of the Apostles John has the second place ( Acts 1: 13 ), the third (), and the fourth (; ), yet always after James with the exception of a few passages (; 9: 28 in the Greek text ; Acts 1: 13 ).

In Acts 14: 9, the word " not " inserted before " heard "; in Hebr.

: 1 Timothy 1: 17 ; Deuteronomy 6: 4 ; 1 Kings 8: 27 ; 1 John 1: 5 ; Genesis 1: 1 – 2 ; Acts 17: 24 – 25, 28 ; Psalm 90: 1 – 2 ; Matthew 28: 19 ; John 3: 16 ; Isaiah 57: 15 ; 2 Peter 3: 9.

: Genesis 2: 2 – 3 ; Exodus 16: 23 – 30 ; Exodus 20: 8 – 11 ; Matthew 5: 17 – 19 ; Mark 2: 27 – 28 ; Luke 4: 16 ; Acts 13: 14, 42 – 44 ; 16: 11 – 13 ; 17: 2 – 3 ; 18: 4 – 11 ; Ezekiel 20: 19 – 20 ; Hebrews 4: 9 – 10 ; John 14: 15 ; Isaiah 58: 13 – 14 ; Luke 23: 56.

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Acts 1: 9 describes the Ascension as follows:

See also Acts 2: 10 where Jews from Cyrene heard the disciples speaking in their own language in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost ; 6: 9 where some Cyrenian Jews disputed with a disciple named Stephen ; 11: 20 tells of Jewish Christians originally from Cyrene who ( along with believers from Cyprus ) first preached the Gospel to non-Jews ; 13: 1 names Lucius of Cyrene as one of several to whom the Holy Spirit spoke, instructing them to appoint Barnabas and Saul ( later Paul ) for missionary service.

The extant New Testament of the Vaticanus contains the Gospels, Acts, the General Epistles, the Pauline Epistles, and the Epistle to the Hebrews ( up to Hebrews 9: 14, καθα

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3: 9 ; Acts 17: 30 ).

1 Thessalonians 1: 9 ; Acts 26: 18.

In Damascus a Christian community had flourished since apostolic times ( Acts 9 ).

( Book of Acts 9: 9 )

The Comma Johanneum in 1 John 5: 7 is well known example, but there are also other texts like: Matt 10: 8 ; 27: 35 ; Luke 17: 36 ; John 3: 25 ; Acts 8: 37 ; 9: 5 ; 15: 34 ; and some readings (" book of life " instead of " tree of life " in Revelation 22: 19 ) which the Byzantine text did not have.

Scrivener showed that some texts were incorporated from the Vulgate ( for example, Acts 9: 6 ; Rev 17: 4. 8 ).

His ascension is also recorded in and in the Acts of the Apostles 1: 9 – 11.

Other references are in Acts 5: 29, 32 ; Romans 16: 19 ; 2 Corinthians 7: 15 ; Hebrews 5: 9.

According to the majority viewpoint, Acts describes Paul differently from how he describes himself, both factually and theologically.

The self-described purpose of Christianity is to provide people with what it holds to be the only valid path to salvation as announced by the apostles of what the Book of Acts describes as, The Way.

A third theory is that Galatians 2: 1-10 describes Paul and Barnabas ' visit to Jerusalem described in Acts 11: 30 and 12: 25.

* Acts 2, which describes an occurrence of speaking in tongues in Jerusalem at Pentecost, though with various interpretations.

The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and " divided tongues like fire " coming to rest on the apostles.

* In Acts 2: 30-33, Ephesians 4: 8-10 and 1 Timothy 3: 16 ( where Jesus as taken up in glory ) the Ascension is spoken of as an accepted fact, while Hebrews 10: 12 describes Jesus as seated in heaven.

In addition to the more famous story of Simon Magus found in chapter 8, the Book of Acts () also describes another magus who acted as an advisor of Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul at Paphos on the island of Cyprus.

The Acts of the Apostles, written between 60 and 100, describes the same period.

The Book of Acts ( 2: 1-13 ) describes Galileans speaking in non-native languages drawn from all over the Roman Empire, so that visitors to Jerusalem could understand them declaring " the mighty works of God ".

The fullest account of Leucius is that given by Photius ( Codex 114 ), who describes a book, called The Circuits of the Apostles, which contained the Acts of Peter, John, Andrew, Thomas, and Paul, that was purported to have been written by " Leucius Charinus " which he judged full of folly, self-contradiction, falsehood, and impiety ( Wace ); Photius is the only source to give his second name, " Charinus ".

The Acts of Thomas describes in chapter 17 Thomas ' visit to king Gudnaphar in northern India ; chapters 2 and 3 depict him as embarking on a sea voyage to India, thus connecting Thomas to the west coast of India.

In Acts 2: 30-33, Ephesians 4: 8-10 and 1 Timothy 3: 16 ( where Jesus as taken up in glory ) the Ascension is spoken of as an accepted fact, while Hebrews 10: 12 describes Jesus as seated in heaven.

Acts may be further divided into scenes ; in classical theater each regrouping between entrances and exits of actors is a scene, while later use describes a change of setting.

Some scholars believe this is an error, since it describes the revolt of Theudas, which would not actually take place for another ten years, as happening before that betrayal by Judas, Other scholars understand that the Theudas mentioned in Acts is not the Theudas mentioned by Josephus, but may be an unknown revolutionary with the same name, or may be another Galillean named Judas that led a revolt in 4 B. C.

In the New Testament book of Acts of the Apostles, author St. Luke describes how a Jewish magician named Bar-Jesus ( Elymas ) was obstructing the Apostles in their preaching of the Gospel.

Like these works, the Acts of Andrew describes the supposed travels of the title character, the miracles he performed during them, and finally a description of his martyrdom.

Ananias (;, same as Hebrew חנניה, Hananiah, " favoured of the "), was a disciple of Jesus at Damascus mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of " Saul, of Tarsus " ( known later as Paul the Apostle ) and provide him with additional instruction in the way of the Lord.

In Paul's speech in Acts 22, he describes Ananias as " a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews " that dwelt in Damascus ().

That author describes Iconium as the last city of Phrygia ; and in Acts 14: 6 Paul, after leaving Iconium, crossed the frontier and came to Lystra in Lycaonia.

The Sethian cosmogony was most famously contained in the Apocryphon of John, which describes an unknown God, the same as Paul had done in the Acts of the Apostles 17: 23.

Mainstream dispensationalists are referred to holding the " Acts 2 " position in the spectrum, because that chapter describes the events at Pentecost.

* E. W. Bullinger -- describes some of the basic theology, especially the Acts 28 doctrine