The book known as Acts of the Apostles is important to know if you are a Christian and if you believe the book is a reliable history of the early church. It is also possible to be a Christian and accept a scholarly view that Acts is often not historically reliable, in which case knowing Acts of the Apostles would be of secondary importance.
The Book of Acts
A:The author of Acts of the Apostles, whose name is unknown to us but is traditionally assumed to be Luke, also wrote Luke's Gospel.
ACTS
Events from the Resurrection up thru the time the Church expanded to other towns than Jerusalem.
In the Acts of the Apostles, Luke does not tell us the story of all the apostles. A few are mentioned here and there. Luke concentrates mainly on the Apostle Peter and the Apostle Paul. The latter part of the book is the Apostle Paul's part in spreading Christianity, and so Luke ends the book by telling us that Paul is still under the Roman hand, but is not in prison, perse, but has rented his own house, receiving all who come to him preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things of Christ.
A:The missionary trips are in Acts of the Apostles only. Paul's own epistles never mention, and actually preclude, the three missionary trips described in the later book.
Acts of the Apostles has long been regarded as a history of the early Church. The Acts Seminar was set up to review the book carefully and look for evidence of historicity in Acts. It determined that the book was written in the second century and does not accurately record events and personalities of the early church. Scholars participating in the Seminar concluded (See Acts and Christian Beginnings) that Acts is "a primary resource for understanding second-century Christianity", as the book writes of events and purported events in the time of Peter and Paul as if they took place at the time of writing.
No, Paul is not responsible for writing the Acts of the Apostles. It was written by Luke, the writer of the Gospel of Luke. In Acts 1:1, Luke refers to the "first book" he had written. He was a physician who was a companion of Paul beginning probably on Paul's second missionary journey. Luke uses the third person "they" in his written history until Acts 16:10 where he begins to use the first person "us," indicating that at some recent point, he had joined Paul on his journey.
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No. The four Gospels tell us this. Please see the Relevant answers on this topicAdditional Answer:What some have called Luke's sequel writing, the Book of Acts is the Bible's major source of the events of the Apostles immediately after the 1st Pentecost when God's Holy Spirit fell upon the Apostles hiding in a home. It seems to only record the first twelve years (the biblical number of a 'new organized' beginning) in what is called the Syria-Palestinian region from 31 to 43 A.D. Then we find Peter leaving and Jesus' brother James becoming the Head of the Jerusalem Church of God around 44 A.D. Also, Herod in Acts 12 beheads the eldest of the sons of Zebedee, James, brother to the beloved Apostle John. As we do not hear of the remaining Apostles except for Paul, it seems reasonable that they had already left the region on their mission.