" There are several such books in the New Testament apocrypha, including the Acts of Thomas, the Acts of Andrew, and the Acts of John.

" Some scholars theorize that the " we " passages in Acts are just such " handed down " quotations from some earlier source who accompanied Paul on his travels.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

Acts differs with Paul's letter on important issues, such as the Law, Paul's own apostleship, and his relation to the Jerusalem church.

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 ).

As a result, Acts is particularly influential among branches of Christianity which place particular emphasis in the Holy Spirit, such as Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement.

Acts also features an emphasis on prayer and includes a number of notable prayers such as the Believers ' Prayer (), Stephen's death prayer (), and Simon Magus ' prayer ().

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.

Acts of formal recognition, such as the erection of an altar over the saint's tomb or transferring the saint's relics to a church, were preceded by formal inquiries into the sanctity of the person's life and the miracles attributed to that person's intercession.

Christians explain that such selectivity is based on rulings made by early Jewish Christians in the Book of Acts, at the Council of Jerusalem, that, while believing gentiles did not need to fully convert to Judaism, they should follow some aspects of Torah like avoiding idolatry and fornication and blood, including, according to some interpretations, homosexuality.

In addition, the exclusion of any mention of the letter of Acts 15 is seen to indicate that such a letter did not yet exist, since Paul would have been likely to use it against the legalism confronted in Galatians.

Volunteers, such as those involved in GenerousGenealogists, a follow-on group similar to Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness ( now defunct ), do record lookups or take photos in their home areas for researchers who are unable to travel.

Different aspects of speaking in tongues appear in Acts and 1 Corinthians, such that the Assemblies of God declare that the gift in Acts " is the same in essence as the gift of tongues " in 1 Corinthians " but different in purpose and use ".

The Book of Acts contradicts the letters of Paul on many points, such as Paul's second trip to Jerusalem for an apostolic council.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

There is just as little against such an acceptation in the later account in Acts of St. Paul's third missionary journey.

Early Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius claimed that he was the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles and this is the traditional Christian view today.

* Main Acts: Papa Roach, Chevelle, Saliva, Authority Zero, Skindred, Future_Leaders_Of_the_World

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

The author is traditionally identified as Luke the Evangelist ; see Authorship of Luke – Acts for details.

Acts 15: 22 – 24 from the 7th-century Codex Laudianus in the Bodleian Library, written in parallel columns of Latin and Greek language | Greek.

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

* Alan Taylor, " The Alien and Sedition Acts " in Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The American Congress ( 2004 ), 63 – 76

* Constitution of 1967 – after the 1964 coup d ' État against João Goulart, the military dictatorship passed the Institutional Acts, a supraconstitutional law.

* Acts – Revelation: Novum Testamentum Graece.

The Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836 – 1848 was enacted in British India under East India Company rule.

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.

Moreover, Paul's description of the Council of Jerusalem ( Gal 2: 1 – 10 ) gives a different point of view from the description in Acts 15: 2 – 29.

In this view, the visit to Jerusalem, mentioned in Galatians 2: 1 – 10, is identical with that of Acts 15, which is spoken of as a thing of the past.

In order to see that these churches were properly established ( as was Paul's typical pattern, see Acts 14: 21 – 23 ), Paul left Titus in Crete.

Tertullian ( c. a. d. 160 – 225 ) wrote that when it was discovered that a church elder had composed a pseudonymous work, The Acts of Paul ( which included a purported Pauline letter, 3 Corinthians ), the offending elder “ was removed from his office ” ( On Baptism 17 ).

* 1958 – Matthew Ward, American singer ( Second Chapter of Acts )

According to Acts of the Apostles, Paul founded the church in Corinth ( Acts 18: 1 – 17 ), then spent approximately three years in Ephesus ( Acts 19: 8, 19: 10, 20: 31 ).

After the " Helium Acts Amendments of 1960 " ( Public Law 86 – 777 ), the U. S. Bureau of Mines arranged for five private plants to recover helium from natural gas.

* 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

* 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.

* 1948 – National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom

* Tertullian. org: The Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles ( 1923 ) J. M. WILSON, D. D.

In October 1935, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the recently passed Neutrality Acts and placed an embargo on arms and munitions to both sides, but extended a further " moral embargo " to the belligerent Italians, including other trade items.

* The Life and Acts of John Whitgift, D. D.

The calling of an apostle is to be a special witness of the name of Jesus Christ in all the world, particularly of his divinity and of his bodily resurrection from the dead ( Acts 1: 22 ; D & C 107: 23 ).

A. D. H. Bivar, writing in The Cambridge History of Iran, said that the reign dates of one Gondophares recorded in the Takht-i Bahi inscription ( 20 – 46 or later AD ) are consistent with the dates given in the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas for the Apostle's voyage to India following the Crucifixion in c. 30 AD.

In Acts 20: 28 it reads ( of the Lord ) along with the manuscripts < sup > 74 </ sup > D E Ψ 33 36 453 945 1739 1891, but the corrector added και του Θεου ( and God ) as have P 049 326 1241 2492 and the Byzantine manuscripts.

Ultimately, the land question was settled through successive Irish Land Acts by United Kingdom governments – beginning with the 1881 Act of William Ewart Gladstone, which first gave extensive rights to tenant farmers, then the Wyndham Land Purchase Act ( 1903 ) won by William O ' Brien after the 1902 Land Conference, enabling tenant farmers purchase their plots of land from their landlords, the problems of non-existent rural housing resolved by D. D. Sheehan under the Bryce Labourers ( Ireland ) Act ( 1906 ).

* Coedited with D. W. Torrance, Calvin's Commentaries, The Acts of the Apostles 14-26, translated by J. W.

A Comic Opera in Three Acts, libretto by H. D. Banning ( 1910 )

Acts 12: 25 reads απο Ιερουσαλημ ( from Jerusalem ) along with manuscripts: D, Ψ, 181, 436, 614, 2412, ℓ 147, ℓ 809, ℓ 1021, ℓ 1141, ℓ 1364, ℓ 1439, ar, d, vg, Chrysostom ; majority reads εις Ιερουσαλημ ( to Jerusalem ).

The tradition first appears in the " Martyrdom of Peter ", a fragmented text found in, but likely predating, the apocryphal Acts of Peter, which was written no later than 200 A. D.

* Main Acts: Allele, Shinedown, Cold, P. O. D., Silvertide

Stilt-Man was among the villains assembled by Doctor Doom to attack the Fantastic Four in Washington, D. C. during the Acts of Vengeance.

" Organizing for Disorder: Civil Unrest, Police Control, and the Invention of Washington, D. C ." In Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making.