What of the book of acts talk about?

Answer 1

The book of Acts is also referred to as the "Acts of the Apostles."

Simply put, Acts follows the apostles through the first 60 or so years of spreading the gospel throughout Israel and the Mediterranean. It begins with Jesus commanding his followers to take the gospel throughout the world and then with Jesus ascending (returning) to heaven. The apostles then receive power through the Baptism of the Spirit. From this point on are the various activities of the apostles and the new churches, much of which focuses on the conversion and missionary journeys of Paul.

Answer 2

One of the leading subject of Acts is the spread of the Gospel to the Gentiles. The Book of Acts links the Gospels, which are primarily an account of Jesus' life and ministry, to the apostolic letters. The accounts in Acts also geographically link Jerusalem, where the church began, to Rome, the political center of the world. Acts gives us insight into how the apostles laid the foundation of the new Christian church. In this we clearly see the establishment of principles that are to govern the Christian church throughout the church age.

Answer:Acts is about the spread of the gospel through the missionary journeys of Paul and the establishment of the church. The book begins in Jerusalem and ends in Rome.

Answer 3

Acts of the Apostles is not really a history of the early Church, as is almost universally supposed. An important, well disguised theme is the primacy of St Peter over St 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.

Acts provides a miraculous explanation for the conversion of Paul, with three parallel but different stories in which Jesus appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus. In each account there was a blinding light, which appeared only to Paul in the version at Acts 9:3-8 and probably at Acts 26.13-19, but appeared to both Paul and his men at Acts 22:6-11. Paul alone heard a voice from heaven at Acts 22:6-11 and probably at Acts 26.13-19, but both Paul and his men heard the voice at Acts 9:3-8. What the three accounts do have in common is that they seem to have been based on the ancient play of Euripedes called the Bacchae. This suggests that Paul's own, more mundane account might have been the true story of his conversion and subsequent travels.

Point by point, Acts of the Apostles appears to address Paul's account in his epistles, written some decades earlier, and then attribute his achievements to Peter or the other disciples, while making Paul more dependent on their support and advice than is found in his own epistles. Paul might have been regarded for much of the first century as Christianity's greatest apostle, but the legacy of Acts is to show him as outshone by St. Peter.