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 ).

Since Luke-Acts was originally a single work, it is important to note that the purpose of Acts is normally examined in conjunction with the Book of Luke.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

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The editors / authors of the Deuteronomistic history cite a number of sources, including ( for example ) a " Book of the Acts of Solomon " and, frequently, the " Annals of the Kings of Judah " and a separate book, " Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ".

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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.

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.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

That visit could not be the one referred to in the Book of Acts 27: 7, when Paul was on his voyage to Rome as a prisoner, and where he continued a prisoner for two years.

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

The Book of Acts admits conflicts between Hebrews and Hellenists, and Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians, and Aramaic speakers and Greek speakers.

Acts of the Apostles ( Book 3, Chapter 14 )

By 1555 he had completed his work on the New Testament, finishing with the Acts and the Gospels ( he omitted only the brief second and third Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation ).

John Foxe's Foxe's Book of Martyrs | Book of Martyrs, officially titled Acts and Monuments, which took a positive view of John's reign

Luke, who wrote the Gospel of Luke, was a physician who lived around AD 30 to 130 ( exact years are not known ), and he also wrote the Book of Acts in the Bible.

In the last chapter of the Book of Acts, widely attributed to Luke, we find several accounts in the first person also affirming Luke's presence in Rome including Acts 28: 16: " And when we came to Rome ..." According to some accounts, Luke also contributed to authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

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The Urantia Book portrays Paradise as the " eternal center of the universe of universes ," and as " the abiding place of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and their divine co-ordinates and associates.

Marriage to a half-sister, for example, is considered incest by most nations today, but was common behaviour for Egyptian pharaohs ; similarly, the Book of Genesis portrays Sarah as marrying Abraham, her half-brother, without criticising the close genetic relationship between them, and the Book of Samuel treats the marriage of a royal prince to his sister as unusual, rather than wicked.

The description of the clothing of the Hebrew high priest in the Book of Exodus portrays the Urim and Thummim as being put into the sacred breastplate, worn by the high priest over the Ephod.

The midrashic Book of Jasher portrays Issachar as somewhat pragmatic, due to his strong effort in being more learned, less involved with other matters which led him to such actions like taking a feeble part in military campaigns involving his brothers, and generally residing in strongly fortified cities and, depending on his brother Zebulun's fianancial support in return for a share in the spiritual reward he gains.

Avril is one of the characters in Per Olov Enquist's book The Book of Blanche and Marie, which portrays the lives of Blanche Wittman and Marie Curie.

Similarly, the Book of Isaiah despite disparagement of sacrifices without justice, portrays sacrifice as having a role complementary with prayer in a universalistic eschatology ( Isaiah 56: 1 ; 6-7 ).

Nevertheless, in the late 1820s, the western New York region was swept with anti-Masonic fervor, and the Book of Mormon, a foundational religious book published by Smith in 1830, is generally considered to reflect that anti-Masonic sentiment by condemning what it portrays as oath-bound conspiratorial organizations.

The novel consists of three sections: Book One portrays the protagonist's arrival in Scotland as a child, following the death of his parents back in Ireland ; Book Two focuses on the character's adolescence and ends on a pair of tragedies ( the death of his best friend and his failure to win a scholarship to study medicine at the university, due to a sudden illness ); Book Three begins with the protagonist as a somewhat embittered figure, entering the adult working world with little hope for the future, which is only compounded by the fact that he has fallen in love.

Godard likewise portrays the role that certain objects and organizations — such as Mao's Little Red Book, the French Communist Party, and other small leftist factions — play in the developing ideology and activities of the Aden Arabie cell.

In the episode of the TV show Kung Fu entitled " Empty Pages of a Dead Book " ( 1974 ) actor Robert Foxworth portrays a fictionalized son of Captain McNelly, Clyde McNelly, who tracks down men who at one time were pursued by the elder McNelly.

Far from trying to build a systematic or formalist theory, he wanted his disciples to master and internalize the old classics, so that their deep thought and thorough study would allow them to relate the moral problems of the present to past political events ( as recorded in the Annals ) or the past expressions of commoners ' feelings and noblemen's reflections ( as in the poems of the Book of Odes ).

Drost was one of Rembrandt's most talented disciples, so much so that his 1654 painting titled: Portrait of a Young Woman with her Hands Folded on a Book was one of the ones attributed to Rembrandt for more than 300 years.

His disciples burned 5, 000 copies of Book of Rajneeshism, a 78-page compilation of his teachings that defined " Rajneeshism " as " a religionless religion ".

On the other hand, according to the Book of Acts, at Pentecost with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the disciples take on a new boldness, accuracy and discipline in their discipleship.

In Luke, Jesus says that all people will be called to repentance and tells his disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they become invested with power, which presumably happened at Pentecost in the Book of Acts.

The Book of Glory comprises Jesus ' private teaching to his disciples, his crucifixion, and his resurrection.

The ( c. 636 ) Book of Sui lists five medical books attributed to Hua Tuo and his disciples, but none are extant ( Fan 2004: 316 ).

The Book of Rites was originally rewritten and edited by Confucius ' disciples after the " Burning of the Books.

Upon the recompilation of the Confucian classics what the disciples were able to remember of the Classic of Music was redacted as chapter 19 of the Book of Rites.

He also wrote a Vita abbreviata et miracula beatissimi Antonii (" Shortened life and miracles of the most blessed Antony ") and a Liber de transitu beate virginis et gestis discipulorum (" Book of the passing of the blessed virgin and acts of the disciples ").

In Mormonism the Three Nephites are three Nephite disciples of Jesus described in the Book of Mormon who were blessed by Jesus to " never taste of death ; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be fulfilled according to the will of the Father, when I shall come in my glory with the powers of heaven.

According to the Book of Later Han, during the reign of the Emperor Shun of Han ( 125 – 144 ), Gan Ji's disciples Gong Chong submitted the Taiping Qingling Shu to the emperor.

His disciples set fire to 5, 000 copies of the Book of Rajneeshism, a 78-page compilation of his teachings that had defined Rajneeshism as " a religionless religion ".