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The Acts of the Apostles is a compendium of the Christian faith in action. It combines history and theology to illustrate various aspects of the first Church—among them, how Christianity spread after Christ’s ascension and how the Church was established. It provides a detailed view of the life of the early community of Christians in Jerusalem and of the dispersion of the Christians, as well as of...

13:16ff; 17:22ff; 20:18ff; 22:1ff; 24:10ff; 26:2ff) have been the subject of many detailed studies. Naturally, the actual address in each case would have been longer than the version given in the book, and Luke would have had more to draw on for some than for others. However, the accounts which Luke gives are to be taken as accurate. The addresses can be seen to reflect traditional Jewish styles of quoting and interpreting Holy Scripture and, although similar in structure, there is also quite a variety
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