"Immediately following the Gospels, ... comes a vividly written account of the beginnings of the community in Jerusalem and of those phases of its spread that are connected with Paul, the man who took Christianity to Europe. ... Acts is simply a continuation of the narrative begun in Luke. It is written in excellent Greek, and provides our only source of knowledge about the earliest stage in the expansion of Christianity. We can, however, check its information against the letters of Paul, where parallel accounts of certain key events appear. Acts also gives us valuable summaries of the apostolic preaching ... Although these are obviously not verbatim reports of the speakers' words, they appear to reflect the themes and emphases of the original Christian preachers."
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Howard Clark Kee and Franklin W. Young, Understanding the New Testament, Chapter 2: The Community and its Convictions, p. 65, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1957 (reprint 1961)
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