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The Acts of the Apostles [a] ( Koinē Greek: Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn; [2] Latin: Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire. [3] Acts and the Gospel of Luke make up a two-part work, Luke–Acts ...
The version of Acts preserved in the Western manuscripts contains about 6.2–8.5% more content than the Alexandrian version of Acts (depending on the definition of a variant). [4] : 5–6 Modern scholars contend that the shorter Alexandrian text is closer to the original, and the longer Western text is the result of later insertion of ...
Acts 1 is the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke. [1] This chapter functions as a transition from the "former account" (that is, the Gospel of Luke ...
James, brother of Jesus. Jason of Thessalonica. John Mark. Joseph Barsabbas. Judas Barsabbas. Judas of Galilee. Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus. Justus of Jerusalem.
In Christianity, the Holy Spirit is seen as the third person of the Trinity (along with the Father God and the son, Jesus ). [1] The Acts of the Apostles (or the Book of Acts, or simply Acts) is the fifth book of the Christian New Testament. Following immediately after Jesus’s crucifixion, the book tells of the founding of the Christian ...
The Acts of the Apostles is a genre of early Christian literature, recounting the lives and works of the apostles of Jesus. The Acts ( Latin: Acta; Greek: Πράξεις Práxeis) are important for many reasons, one of them being the concept of apostolic succession. [1] They also provide insight into the valuation of "missionary activities ...
Acts 15:22–24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550. Acts 7 is the seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the address of Stephen before the Sanhedrin and his execution outside [1] Jerusalem, and introduces Saul (who later became ...
The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles make up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts. The author is not named in either volume. According to a Church tradition, first attested by Irenaeus (c. 130 – c. 202 AD), he was the Luke named as a companion of Paul in three of the Pauline letters, but "a critical consensus emphasizes the countless contradictions between the account ...