Acts of the Apostles

American  

noun

1. a book of the New Testament.

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Acts of the Apostles British  

noun

1. Often shortened to: Acts.  the fifth book of the New Testament, describing the development of the early Church from Christ's ascension into heaven to Paul's sojourn at Rome

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Acts of the Apostles

And why does the Acts of the Apostles end with the reader wondering what became of its two most important characters, when we know they were martyred?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Stainbrook said, referring to an account in the Acts of the Apostles.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

The Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament describes Peter baptising the Roman centurion Cornelius in Caesarea.

From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2021

One young man turned to Acts of the Apostles: “Ananias answered: ‘Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done,’ ” the student read.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2016

It is a MS. of the Acts of the Apostles, in quarto, consisting of 227 leaves, and containing the text in both Greek and Latin, in parallel columns.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn