Acts - Introduction
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The Apostle Paul calls Luke “our dear friend, Luke, the doctor” (Colossians 4:14). Luke was from Antioch, an important city in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. It is possible that Luke met Paul while Paul was living in Antioch. Luke later accompanied Paul on part of Paul’s second missionaryjourney and again on Paul’s final voyage to Rome (Acts 27:1; 28:16). Luke knew Paul well; he was, therefore, well qualified to write an account of Paul’s life.
Although the book of Acts has been called the “Acts of the Apostles,” it can just as appropriately be called the “Acts of the Holy Spirit”; because everything the apostles did, they did through the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The book of Acts, therefore, is not written only about the acts of men; it is written also about the acts of God’s Holy Spirit, who lived within those men.