“ 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 ).

The assembled bishops informed the pope that a copy of all the " Acta " would be transmitted to him ; in March, 453, Pope Leo commissioned Julian of Cos, then at Constantinople, to make a collection of all the Acts and translate them into Latin.

According to Christian theologian Alister McGrath, the Jewish Christians affirmed every aspect of then contemporary Second Temple Judaism with the addition of the belief that Jesus was the messiah, with Isaiah 49: 6, " an explicit parallel to 42: 6 " quoted by Paul in Acts 13: 47 and reinterpreted by Justin the Martyr.

It was the most severe sentence up to then imposed under the Alien and Sedition Acts.

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

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 ).

He continued to read and interpret the book on subsequent Sundays until he reached the end and then proceeded in the same manner with the Acts of the Apostles, the New Testament epistles, and finally the Old Testament.

The Factory Acts ( first one in 1802, then 1833 ) and the 1832 Master and Servant Act were the first laws regulating labour relations in the United Kingdom.

: " 1 ... First then must be put the holy quaternion of the gospels ; following them the Acts of the Apostles ... the epistles of Paul ... the epistle of John ... the epistle of Peter ... After them is to be placed, if it really seem proper, the Book of Revelation, concerning which we shall give the different opinions at the proper time.

The dam then broke in 1641 when the traditional retrospective reverence for Thomas Cranmer and other martyred bishops in the Acts and Monuments was displaced by forward-looking attitudes to prophecy, among radical Puritans.

Acts tells of a person named Simōn practicing magic in the city of Sebaste in Samaria, meeting with Philip the Evangelist, and then trying to offer money to the Apostles in exchange for miraculous abilities, specifically the power of laying on of hands.

He then leaves Corinth and spends about 3 years in Ephesus ( Acts 19: 8, 19: 10, 20: 31 ).

The terms of the union had been agreed in the Treaty of Union that was negotiated the previous year and then ratified by the parliaments of Scotland and England each approving Acts of Union.

Since then vaccination campaigns have spread throughout the globe, sometimes prescribed by law or regulations ( See Vaccination Acts ).

" Acts 2: 41 then reports: " Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

The Reconstruction Acts called for registering all adult males, white and black, except those who had ever sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and then engaged in rebellion ... Sheridan interpreted these restrictions stringently, barring from registration not only all pre-1861 officials of state and local governments who had supported the Confederacy but also all city officeholders and even minor functionaries such as sextons of cemeteries.

* Acts 26: 20: " First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds.

A more detailed account of Jesus ' bodily Ascension into the clouds is then given in the Acts of the Apostles ( 1: 9-11 ).

In the Book of Acts ( chapter 8 ), the disciple Philip meets an Ethiopian eunuch ( i. e. a black man ) sitting in a chariot to whom he explains a passage from the Book of Isaiah, and then converts him to Christianity.

He then took a brief hiatus from recording on his own and only toured in support of other artists like Love Song, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Paul Clark, and Nancy Honeytree.

Rather, the 1799 Resolutions to declared that Kentucky " will bow to the laws of the Union " but would continue " to oppose in a constitutional manner " the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Most modern Christian churches continue to uphold the belief that there will be a final Resurrection of the Dead and World to Come, perhaps as prophesied by the Apostle Paul when he said: "... he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world ..." ( Acts 17: 31 KJV ) and "... there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

He had to support the widely reviled measures taken by Sidmouth and the others, including the infamous Six Acts, in order to remain in cabinet and continue his diplomatic work.

However, England and Scotland would only continue to be sovereign states, sharing a monarch, until the Acts of Union in 1707 during the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne.

The Acts then continue to say that he was taken to Terracina to one Castor " And there he was sorely cut ( Lat.

It involved the refusal of the Irish Government to continue to reimburse Britain with the " land annuities " derived from financial loans granted by Britain to Irish tenant farmers to enable them purchase lands under the Irish Land Acts during the previous half century, a provision which was part of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Eventually, PDSA's role was defined by two Acts of Parliament, in 1949 and 1956, that continue to govern its activities today.

Seventh-day Sabbatarians say that the believers met on all days of the week to " break bread " together for the sake of meals and fellowship, such as in Acts 2: 46, regarding the incident in Acts 20: 7 as nothing outside of usual practice.

The two different but diverging paths along which these rights evolved and operate in Anglo-American jurisprudence ( one through rights expressed in an entrenched constitution, the other in Acts of Parliament specifying rights or protections at common law ) can be seen today in Commonwealth nations like Australia and New Zealand, where police officers are still required at common law to issue " Miranda-style " warnings ( but which are completely unrelated to the US Miranda warning ruling ) and inform an arrested person that they do not have to answer any questions but that whatever they do say ( or do ) can be used in court as evidence.

Regulations are in some sense equivalent to " Acts of Parliament ", in the sense that what they say is law and they do not need to be mediated into national law by means of implementing measures.

In a certain sense it was perhaps the Office which was primitively the preparation for the Mass, that is to say, the Mass of the Catechumens, which presents at any rate the same construction as that Office :- the reading from the Old Testament, then the epistles and the Acts, and finally the Gospel-the whole being intermingled with psalmody, and terminated by the Homily.

Many ancient accounts say Barnabas was the first to preach in Rome and in Milan, but he was martyred in Cyprus, then buried by Mark at the western gate of the city of Salamis .” Orthodox Study Bible Reference to in Acts 4: 36 ; 9: 27 ; 11-15 ; 1 Corinthians 9: 6 ; Galatians 2: 1, 9, 13 ; Colossians 4: 10

Virgo would say that the Samaritan experience in Acts 8 and the Ephesian disciples ' experience in Acts 19 make it clear that baptism in the Holy Spirit does not always happen ' automatically ' upon conversion.

The preaching and letters of Apostle Peter in the Acts of the Apostles and the letters of Paul declared that Jesus died, was raised by God and the apostles are witnesses to this resurrection.

The bishop inquired into the motive of his death and, finding he had died a martyr, sent his name with an account of his martyrdom to other churches, especially neighboring ones, so that, in event of approval by their respective bishops, the cultus of the martyr might extend to their churches also, and that the faithful, as we read of St. Ignatius in the " Acts " of his martyrdom " might hold communion with the generous martyr of Christ " ( generoso Christi martyri communicarent ).

The Judicature Acts, completing the fusion of law and equity, were passed while he was judge of first instance, and were still new to the courts when he died.

His knowledge and power of assimilating knowledge of all subjects, his mastery of every branch of law with which he had to concern himself, as well as of equity, together with his willingness to give effect to the new system, caused it to be said when he died that the success of the Judicature Acts would have been impossible without him.

Charles Townshend spearheaded the Townshend Acts, but died before their detrimental effects became apparent.

:" We had problems on the awards ... Too many men had died bravely and heroically, while the men who had witnessed their deeds had also been killed ... Acts of valor that, on other fields, on other days, would have been rewarded with the Medal of Honor or Distinguished Service Cross or a Silver Star were recognized only with a telegram saying, ' The Secretary of the Army regrets ...' The same was true of our sister battalion, the 2nd of the 7th.

* Example: ( Acts 9 ) Peter goes to the town of Joppa where a disciple named Tabitha-her Aramaic name, Dorcas being her Greek name-had died.

Though as Paul is traditionally considered to have died in 67 and Marcion was born in 110, it has been argued that it is quite implausible for the two to ever have met ; this also applies to Simon Magus who was said by the Book of Acts to have been teaching during the time of Simon Peter, and was said to have died during Peter's preaching ( Clement of Rome attests to Peter himself dying before 90 ).

According to Acts of the Apostles 1: 18 Judas took his money and bought a field, where he " fell " and died, which might or might not be hanging.

Also, in the New Testament Book of Acts, Saint Stephen was a martyr who died rather than give up his beliefs.

In 1858, when the Probate and Divorce Acts of 1857 came into force, and the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Doctors ' Commons had died, Twiss, like many other leading advocates of Doctors ' Commons, became a QC, and in the same year was also elected a bencher of his Inn.