The Acts of the Apostles (, Práxeis tōn Apostólōn ; ), usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament ; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age.

Representing a traditional view, however, some prominent scholars and historians view the book of Acts as being quite accurate and corroborated by archaeology, while agreeing with the Pauline epistles.

The book of Acts has been most commonly dated to the second half of the 1st century.

The structure of the book of Luke is closely tied with the structure of Acts.

The book of Acts can also be broken down by the major characters of the book.

While the complete title of the book is the Acts of the Apostles, really the book focuses on only two men: The Apostle Peter ( chs.

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 ".

In the 1945-46 session alone, pensions and other benefits were substantially increased, and from 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone.

This presents a problem as the book of Acts records that Paul spent a significant amount of time with the church in Ephesus, and in fact was one of its founders.

Mark and Barnabus parted company with Paul over Mark leaving the mission field after violent opposition in the book of Acts, but here is reconciled to Paul and spoken of as a comfort.

Epharoditus, Paul refers to as a fellow prisoner, we recognize as the person in the book of Acts who was literally drug through the streets into court on charges.

Paul always mentions his own name in his letters and here mentioned Luke, but in the book of Acts Luke himself never mentions his own name, referring to himself more obliquely only by the personal pronoun ' we ' ( as does Matthew in his book ),

For instance, there are similarities between 1 Peter and Peter's speeches in the Biblical book of Acts.

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.

Both prefaces were addressed to Theophilus, and the preface of Acts explicitly references " my former book " about the life of Jesus.

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.

Many argue that the author of the book must have been a companion of the Apostle Paul, because of several passages in Acts written in the first person plural ( known as the We Sections ).

In the narrative of the book of Acts, while traveling on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus on a mission to " bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem ", the resurrected Jesus appeared to him in a great light.

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The history of the book is outlined as follows:

The second book begins with the death of Gregory the Great in 604, and follows the further progress of Christianity in Kent and the first attempts to evangelise Northumbria.

The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible supplies headings for the book as follows:

The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible supplies headings for the book as follows:

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The entire book follows the structure of a chiasmus in which parallelism of thought is used to bracket sections of the text.

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His book The Diamond Age follows a simpler plot but features " neo-Victorian " characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits.

The book is usually divided as follows:

The scheme of the book in its present form is as follows:

The complete saying as reported by an early biographer is a mixture of Latin and Dutch and runs as follows: " In omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi in hoexkens ende boexkens ", " I have sought everywhere for peace, but I have found it not save in a little nook and in a little book.

The book begins when Anne is eight years old at the coronation of Elizabeth Woodville and follows her life until her death in 1485.

The Monthly Baen Bundles installments are as follows: first includes roughly a half of every book in the bundle, second includes roughly three quarters, and the third, coinciding with the print release, includes the full text.

Elric is described by his creator, in the first book, Elric of Melniboné, as follows:

The Malloreon is a five part fantasy book series written by David Eddings, which follows The Belgariad.

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The play follows the book closely and includes Spade's Flitcraft story.

In his book " The Tempting of America " ( page 82 ), Robert Bork endorsed the Brown decision as follows:

The Diaspora ( the long-departed segment of humanity ) have left behind a device ( the " Fearsome Engine " of the title ) to deal with the problem ; the book follows four characters who become involved in the attempt to activate it, with the narrative moving between the four ( who do not meet until very near the end ) in rotation.

Following an unspecified rumour about HCE, the book, in a nonlinear dream narrative, follows his wife's attempts to exonerate him with a letter, his sons ' struggle to replace him, Shaun's rise to prominence, and a final monologue by ALP at the break of dawn.

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Set and filmed in New York City and based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell, the show follows the lives of a group of four women – three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties – who, throughout their different natures and ever-changing sex lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other.

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The book follows his adventures through the ages, as he takes part in the shaping of history.