What is each part of Acts of the Apostles about?

Answer 1

The giving of the Holy spirit to the church or Pentecost, the ministry of Peter and John, and the stoning of Stephen.

Answer 2

The Book of Acts of the Apostles is just that.....a book, or report, on the Acts (deeds, accomplishments, exploits) of Jesus' apostles as they started their preaching and disciple making work.(Acts 1:8)

Earlier, The Bible writer, Luke, had written the Book of Luke(around 56-58CE) to a friend named Theophilus, to tell "...about all the things Jesus started both to do and to teach..." until the time of his death and resurrection. (Acts 1:1)(Luke 1:3+4)

Now, a few years later (around 61CE)Luke writes the Book of Acts, outlining, again to Theophilus, the history of the early Christian congregation, and what happened AFTER Jesus died (Acts 1:1-11). He covers primarily the ministries of Peter and Paul, which provide insight into the beginning and development of the original Christian organization, among the Jews,Samaritans and Gentile nations and a record of its zealous public witnessing in the face of fierce opposition.
Under the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit the church begins and spreads.

Acts contains the first Christian sermon, the first converts, the first martyr, the first missionaries, the first heretics, the first church council and the same opponents who crucified Jesus continued their opposition to truth.

Answer 3

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, it seems reasonable that they had already left the region on their mission. But just what was their mission is another intriguing question. However, the remaining chapters of the Book of Acts has Paul as the Apostle to the Gentiles as its primary purpose.

Answer 4

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The book, Acts of the Apostles, supposedly provides a history of the first years of Christianity. However, Uta Ranke-Heinemann (Putting Away Childish Things) says that anyone who has kept up with New Testament studies over the last century would realise that the book is regarded by scholars as of doubtful historicity.

Answer 5

Acts of the Apostles is generally regarded as a history of the early Church, although it is really only about the apostles Peter and Paul, with other people and events added as far as required by the narrative. This is the first of the Acts genre and is described as a hagiography.

Acts can be divided into two parts, with chapters 1 to 12 being mainly concerned with Peter and chapters 13 to 28 being mainly about the Apostle Paul. However, these should not be seen as simply two histories of the two most influential apostles. An important, well disguised theme in Acts of the Apostles is the primacy of Peter over Paul, drawing them together in a number of subtle comparisons, even when those comparisons are in widely separated chapters. If a previously unknown miracle was attributed to Paul, then quite comparable miracles were also associated with Peter, and the miracles associated with Paul were always less impressive those associated with Peter.

Answer 6

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 underlying meaning in Acts. It determined that the book was written in the second century and does not accurately record events at the time 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.
What Acts is really about is a subtle comparison between the apostles Peter and Paul. No matter what great work Paul accomplished, or what miracle he experienced, Peter did an even greater work and is portrayed as the greater apostle.

Answer 7

The giving of the Holy spirit to the church or Pentecost, the ministry of Peter and John, and the stoning of Stephen.

Answer 8

The first volume of Acts of the Apostles is what?

Answer 9

The coming of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 10

Christ ascension into heaven Gospel of Luke, how God fulfilled his PLAN FOR THE WORLD. rEALLY ABOUT THE APOSTLE pETER AND pAUL