Acts of the Apostles

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The Acts of the Apostles (Koine Greek: Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn and Latin: Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament. It recounts the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message across the Roman Empire. Acts comprises the second part of a two-volume work known as Luke-Acts with its predecessor, the Gospel of Luke. Acts and the Gospel of Luke share the same author. Tradition identifies the writer as Luke the Evangelist, a physician who travelled with Paul the Apostle. The author is unnamed in the text but appears as a participant in the first-person-view verses of Acts 16-27. Critical opinion remains evenly divided about whether Luke the physician wrote it. Most scholars still regard the author of Luke–Acts as a companion of Paul, although others note tensions with the Pauline epistles. Most scholars treat Acts as historiography, though focus is more on the author's aims than on settling questions of historicity. The book is usually dated to...

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