"[Luke's authorship] is clear from the book's introduction where [he] says: "I produced my first volume (that is the gospel) about all the things that Jesus began to do and to teach." Now Luke is giving a clue here as to what this book of Acts will be about. Volume one was about what Jesus began to do and to teach, volume two will then be about what Jesus continued to do and teach, which leads to a really interesting point about the book's traditional but not original name, The Acts of the Apostles. While different apostles do appear in most of these stories, the only single character who unifies the whole story from beginning to end is Jesus himself, acting directly or through the Spirit, and so the book would more accurately be named The Acts of Jesus and the Spirit."
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Tim Mackie (PhD) and Jonathan Collins (BA), Acts, Part 1 of 2, The Bible Project, 2019
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