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Guide to the Book of Acts. Guide to the Book of. Acts. Key Information and Helpful Resources. This is the second volume in the unified, two-part work that we know today as Luke - Acts. Both books were written by the same author, Luke, a traveling coworker to Paul ( Col. 4:14 ). This is clear from the book’s introduction, in which Luke says ...
in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. 19 And I will show wonders in the heavens above. and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; 20 the sun shall be turned to darkness. and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.
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1. ( Acts 1:1) Reference to former writings. The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach. a. The former account I made: The former account is the Gospel of Luke. At one time the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts were joined together as one book with two volumes.
Acts 1:18. ESV (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. NIV (With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.
The book of Acts provides a bridge for the writings of the NT. As a second volume to Luke's Gospel, it joins what Jesus "began to do and to teach" ( 1:1 ; see note there) as told in the Gospels with what he continued to do and teach through the apostles' preaching and the establishment of the church.
Acts 1:12-26 . RETURN OF THE ELEVEN TO JERUSALEM--PROCEEDINGS IN THE UPPER ROOM TILL PENTECOST. 12-14. a sabbath day's journey --about two thousand cubits. 13. went up into an upper room --perhaps the same "large upper room" where with their Lord they had celebrated the last Passover and the first Supper ( Luke 22:12 ).
The Promise of the Holy Spirit. 1 In my first book[ a] I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit. 3 During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time ...
