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Jul 26, 2024 · Acts is the second volume of the two-volume work, Luke-Acts. Written by Luke the beloved physician ( Col 4:14), Luke-Acts seamlessly connects the life of Jesus to the lives...
3 days ago · Acts of the Apostles, fifth book of the New Testament, a valuable history of the early Christian church. Acts was written in Greek, presumably by St. Luke the Evangelist. The Gospel According to Luke concludes where Acts begins, namely, with Christ’s Ascension into heaven.
Jul 13, 2024 · So the book of Acts is about the acts of the apostles, the acts of the Spirit, and very much about the acts of the preached word. But there is yet another option to consider as a possible title. The heart of Jesus is still with his people.
Jul 22, 2024 · Mary Magdalene appears in the Gospels in the most dramatic moment of Jesus' life, when she accompanies Him to Calvary and, along with other women, observes Him from afar. She is still there when Joseph of Arimathea places the body of Jesus in the sepulcher, which is closed with a stone.
5 days ago · This second book written by Luke is really the Acts of Peter and Paul. It starts with Peter bursting out of the Upper Room in Jerusalem after Pentecost repeatedly to proclaim Jesus as Savior, and largely documents his deeds, including his progressive inclusion of Gentile Christians in the Church.
6 days ago · The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
Jul 17, 2024 · The Acts of the Apostles tells us that the early disciples of Jesus “devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles” (Acts 2:42). By the middle of the second century A.D., the apologist St. Justin Martyr described the early Church’s Liturgy of the Word:
