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Traditionally called, “The Acts of the Apostles,” all evidence points to Luke as being the author of the book of Acts - a fascinating account of life for those at the epicenter of one of the most pivotal times in history.
The book of Acts was written by Luke, the author of the Gospel that bears his name. While Acts serves as a historical document, its purpose goes beyond providing an impersonal church history.
Together with the Gospel of Luke and the Letter to the Hebrews, the book of Acts contains some of the most cultured Greek writing in the New Testament. On the other hand, roughness of Greek style turns up where Luke appears to be following Semitic sources or imitating the Septuagint.
The book of Acts shows how God essentially took a group of fisherman and commoners and used them to turn the world upside down (Acts 17:6). God took a Christian-hating murderer and transformed him into history’s greatest Christian evangelist, the author of almost half the books of the New Testament.
The Acts of the Apostles [a] (Koinē Greek: Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn; [2] Latin: Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire.
Who Wrote the Book of Acts? Christian tradition holds that this book, also called the Acts of the Apostles, was written by the physician and historian named Luke.
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 the Evangelist Luke, whose gospel concludes where Acts begins, namely, with Christ’s Ascension into heaven.
As Dr. Ehrman notes in The New Testament, in “virtually every instance in which the Book of Acts can be compared with Paul’s letters in terms of biographical detail, differences emerge”. It’s highly unlikely, therefore, that a companion of Paul wrote Acts.
Luke is the author of the book Acts. He was also the author of its companion work, the Gospel of Luke. Luke-Acts makes up 28% of the New Testament--more than that written by either Paul or John.
With their leadership under the Holy Spirit, the church expands from a group of believers small enough to fit in one house (Ac 2:2) to a worldwide fellowship said to have turned the world upside-down (Ac 17:6). Acts is the second book from Luke, who also wrote the Gospel that shares his name.