Name of the fifth book of the New Testament. It outlines the history of the early church, from the resurrection of Jesus to the ministry of Paul. The author is traditionally identified as Luke the Evangelist, who is also accredited as the writer of the Gospel of Luke, and of which the Acts are understood to be the sequel.

Like the aforementioned gospel, this book is also addressed to Theophilus. This, as well as a reference in the prologue made to an earlier book, seems to confirm this opinion and many actually believe that the two works originally constituted a two-volume work, which was split into two volumes only when the gospels were being compiled together.

Luke was an early Greco-Syrian physician by trade and a historical Christian writer, who was a disciple of the apostle Paul, whom he often accompanied on his apostolic journeys and to whom he was loyal until his martyrdom. He lived in the Greek city of Antioch in ancient Syria and died at the age of 84 near Boiotia (Βοιωτία), a city in ancient Greece.

In Greek, the Acts are known as Praxeis (Πράξεις), though in the late second century Irenaeus, an early church father and apologist, referred to it as Praxeis Apostolon (Πράξεις ἀποστόλων), a title meaning ‘Acts of the Apostels’. However, some argue that the word Acts should be interpreted as the Acts of the Holy Spirit or even as the Acts of Jesus, i.e. as an account of what Jesus continued to do and teach with and through his church.

Acts Chapter 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28.