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In The Acts of the Apostles: Spreading the Word, Lawrence Farley explores Acts as the sequel to Luke. He treats the book as an apology for the Christian faith as the fulfillment of Judaism, a Gospel for all peoples, a faith that poses no threat to Roman government or society, and the greatest adventure story of all time. In The Acts of the Apostles: Spreading the Word, Farley works from a literal...

of Jesus. Luke further tells Theophilus in Acts 1:1–5 that he dealt in his first book with “all that Jesus began to do and teach,” clearly intending by this to continue the story of what He later did through His disciples. Like Luke’s Gospel, the Acts do not record history simply for archival purposes. Luke writes history, but he makes a selection of events. (For example, he does not record what all the apostles did, the later title “Acts of the Apostles” notwithstanding, but focuses especially on
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