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Dictionary definition: Acts of the Apostles
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Acts of the Apostles
The fifth book of the NT. Without the Acts it would be impossible to write an account of the Christian Church of the first generation. With it, historians have interesting problems on their hands because of the apparent discrepancies both with the theology of Paul and with facts mentioned by Paul in his extant correspondence. And Paul is the central character in the second part of the book, as Peter is of the first.
Acts charts the course of events which took the gospel from Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish world, and in the scriptures the place of revelation, to
Rome
, the capital of the Empire. After a successful start with preaching to Jews (Acts 6: 7), ...