(Ancient Greek: Πράξεις τῶν Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis tôn Apostólōn;
Latin: Actūs Apostolōrum)
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*often referred to simply as acts*
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(the acts of the apostles is the 5th book of the ‘new testament’)
(it tells of the founding of the ‘christian church’ and the spread of its message to the ‘Roman Empire’)
(‘acts’ + the ‘gospel of luke’ make up a 2-part work, ‘Luke–Acts’, by the same anonymous author, usually dated to around 80–90 AD)
(the first part, the “Gospel of Luke”, tells how God fulfilled his plan for the world’s salvation through the life, death, and resurrection of ‘Jesus of Nazareth’, the promised ‘Messiah’)
(‘Acts’ continues the story of ‘Christianity’ in the 1st century, beginning with Jesus’s ‘Ascension to Heaven’)
(the early chapters, set in ‘Jerusalem’, describe the ‘Day of Pentecost’ (the coming of the ‘Holy Spirit’) and the growth of the church in ‘Jerusalem’)
(initially the ‘Jews’ are receptive to the ‘Christian’ message, but soon they turn against the followers of ‘Jesus’)
(rejected by the ‘Jews’, under the guidance of the ‘Apostle Peter’ the message is taken to the ‘Gentiles’)
(the later chapters tell of Paul’s conversion, his mission in ‘Asia Minor’ and the ‘Aegean’, and finally his imprisonment in ‘Rome’, where, as the book ends, he awaits trial)
(‘Luke–Acts’ is an attempt to answer a theological problem, namely how the ‘Messiah’ of the ‘Jews’ came to have an overwhelmingly non-Jewish church; the answer it provides, and its central theme, is that the message of ‘Christ’ was sent to the ‘Gentiles’ because the ‘Jews’ rejected it
(‘Luke–Acts’ can be also seen as a defense of (or “apology” for) the ‘Jesus’ movement addressed to the ‘Jews’: the bulk of the speeches and sermons in ‘Acts’ are addressed to ‘Jewish’ audiences, with the ‘Romans’ featuring as external arbiters on disputes concerning ‘Jewish’ customs and law)
(on the one hand ‘Luke’ portrays the ‘Christians’ as a sect of the ‘Jews’, and therefore entitled to legal protection as a recognised religion; on the other, ‘Luke’ seems unclear as to the future ‘God’ intends for ‘Jews’ and ‘Christians’, celebrating the ‘Jewishness’ of ‘Jesus’ and his immediate followers while also stressing how the ‘Jews’ had rejected God’s promised ‘Messiah’)
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