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Bible study guide ACTS of the APOSTLES Introduction TITLE Commonly called The Acts Of The Apostles it is simply titled Acts in some of the oldest manuscripts It might appropriately be called Some Of The Acts Of Some Of The Apostles since it does not try t

ACTS of the APOSTLES Introduction TITLE Commonly called The Acts Of The Apostles it is simply titled Acts in some of the oldest manuscripts It might appropriately be called Some Of The Acts Of Some Of The Apostles since it does not try to describe all of the acts of all the apostles Rather the focus is clearly on some of the acts or deeds of mostly Peter the key ?gure in the ?rst half and Paul the key ?gure in the second It might also be called The Acts Of The Holy Spirit as that Person of the Godhead is very much an active participant throughout the book AUTHOR Though he does not mention himself by name the author is undoubtedly Luke physician and frequent traveling companion of the apostle Paul From - we learn Acts is the second historical account to Theophilus see below the ?rst being the gospel universally attributed to Luke cf Luke - Luke is described as the beloved Physician Col and the vocabulary of both the gospel and Acts shows evidence of a medical mind Mentioned as a fellow laborer Philem who was with Paul in his last days Tim Luke often accompanied Paul on his travels beginning with his second journey By carefully noting the use of we and they in the book of Acts we glean that Luke joined Paul at Troas - and remained at Philippi until Paul later picked him up on his way to Troas - The book ends with Luke accompanying Paul to his imprisonment in Rome It is evident Luke was very careful to provide a historically accurate account in the both the gospel and Acts cf Luke - - - Sir William Ramsay archaeologist who started his career to prove Luke to be in error o ?ered this testimony as a result of his research Luke is a historian of the ?rst rank not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy he is possessed of the true historic sense in short this author should be placed along with the greatest of historians In fact Luke provides the only record of the ?rst thirty years of the early church CRECIPIENT Both the gospel and Acts were written to one man Theophilus Luke Acts whose name means God lover Ramsay suggests the use of most excellent Luke was a title like Your Excellency cf and that Theophilus was a government o ?cial of high rank It is not used in Acts and one intriguing possibility is that he became a believer in between receiving the gospel and Acts Some have entertained the possibility that Theophilus was a Roman o ?cial in charge of administering Paul's case before Caesar and that the gospel and Acts were written to help him understand the facts of Jesus Christ and Paul's role in the history of the church TIME AND PLACE OF WRITING The book ends abruptly with Paul under house arrest awaiting trial in Rome - This may indicate that the