Acts is one of the most interesting and puzzling books in the New Testament.1 On the one hand it seems to be a simple chronological account of what happened to the church between Jesus’ ascension and Paul’s arrival in Rome, that is, roughly between A.D. 30 and A.D. 60. It is the only document in the NT that appears to be attempting a historical record of the time after Jesus’ life, but it does not even carry us up to the end of Paul’s life (probably in Rome
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