The introduction to Acts makes it clear that Acts is the second book written by Luke. The two form an obvious pair. Luke does not regard volume one as the story of Jesus Christ from his birth through his sufferings and death to his triumphant resurrection and ascension, and volume two as the story of the church of Jesus Christ. For the contrasting parallel he draws is not between Christ and his church, but between two stages of the ministry of the same Christ. In his former book