Book of Acts

Historical

Traditionally Luke the Physician

Traditionally dated c. 60–62 AD

The birth and spread of the early Church.

Acts details the ascension of Jesus, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and the geographic expansion of the church from Jerusalem to Rome through Peter and Paul.

“In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.”

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

“Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”