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Robertson, A. T. Epochs in the Life of Paul.
Sauer, Erich. The Dawn of World
Redemption.
Stalker, James. The Life of St. Paul.
Walvoord, John F. The Holy Spirit.
1. Various titles were ascribed to this book
in the early days of its circulation. The three
most common ones were “Acts of the
Apostles” (found in the Muratorian Fragment
on the Canon, of the late second century);
“Acts of Apostles” (fourth-century Vaticanus
and Beza manuscripts); and “Acts” (fourthcentury Sinaiticus manuscript).
2. Luke no doubt was also with Paul at
other times in the book of Acts, even when
Luke uses the third person in the narrative.
(Richard B. Rackham, The Acts of the
Apostles, p. xxvii.)
3. See Rackham, p. xvi, for evidences of this
identification.
4. E. M. Blaiklock, Acts of the Apostles, pp.
12-13.
5. A “we” reference is one where the writer
(in this case Luke) is a participant in the
action (e.g., Acts 16:10).
6. This was a natural fusion, since all four
books recorded the same message, through
from four di erent vantage points. W.
Graham Scroggie compares the gospels with
the other twenty-three books of the New
Testament as follows:
Chart adapted from Know Your Bible, 2:59.
7. For a history of the expansion of
Christianity in the other directions, see
church history volumes such as Kenneth
Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion
of Christianity, 1:86-113. Latourette cites
one tradition that arose in the early
centuries of the church concerning
missionary work beyond Roman frontiers:
“Sometimes in the early centuries of
Christianity the tradition arose that the
Twelve Apostles had parcelled among
themselves the known world. One form of
this tradition declared that Thomas received
the Parthians as his assignment; Matthew,
Ethiopia; and Bartholomew, part of India”
(p. 101).
8. See F. F. Bruce, Commentary on the Book
of the Acts, pp. 17-24, for a discussion of
this apologetic purpose of Luke.
9. For further study see E. M. Blaiklock, Acts
of the Apostles, pp. 20-44.
10. For a good system of New Testament
chronology, see the study graph chart New
Testament Chronological Chart, revised
edition (1968), by James L. Boyer, Moody
Press, Chicago. Professor Boyer also gives a
clear presentation of the factors that
determine the assigning of dates to New
Testament events.
11. Read Exodus 23:16; 34:22; Leviticus
23:15-21; Numbers 28:26; Deuteronomy
16:10, 16, 17.
12. The rst appearance of the word church
(assembly) in Acts is at 2:47. Before this it
appears only three times in the New
Testament: Matthew 16:18; 18:17 (twice).
13. When a generalization is made
concerning the prominent functions of the
three Persons of the Godhead during the
years of Bible history, it may be said that
the Father is most prominent in the Old
Testament, the Son in the Gospels, and the
Holy Spirit in Acts.
14. Saul is called Paul (a Roman name) for
the rst time in Acts 13:9. After that, Luke
always refers to him as Paul. (Paul uses
“Saul” in describing his conversion
experience in 22:7, 13; 26:14.) The
