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This is the birth of the Church—the completion of the story of Jesus as manifested in the life of the early Church, Christ’s mystical body on Earth. Some highlights of this book include Jesus’ Ascension, the replacing of Judas; Pentecost; Peter’s primacy; the miracles of and the spread of the Gospel by the Apostles; growth of the first Christian community around Peter; Stephen, the first...

In Acts 18:24, Luke introduces his readers to Apollos, an eloquent Jew from Alexandria, the huge port city in Egypt named after Alexander the Great. Alexandria housed the largest library and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—The Pharos Lighthouse. It was in Alexandria that the Greek Septuagint translation of the Old Testament was translated in 250 B.C. Luke describes Apollos as being “well-versed” in Scripture, although Apollos hasn’t yet been taught
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