Who wrote the book of Acts?

Question

Please help!... My friend and I are arguing about it...

Answer 1

Errrrrrrrrm Luke.

Answer 2

The Book of Acts does not specifically identify its author. From Luke 1:1-4 and Acts 1:1-3, it is clear that the same author wrote both Luke and Acts. The tradition from the earliest days of the church has been that Luke, a companion of the Apostle Paul, wrote both Luke and Acts (Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:11).

Answer 3

Luke.

Reasons why:

1) Both Luke and Acts are addressed to Theophilus. Not many books of this size were addressed to a person by name in the New Testament.

2) The language and style are similar to both books, but not even close to the other New Testament books.

3) Luke was a medical doctor and uses several medical terms in both books, while there isn't much reference to medicine in the other New Testament books. Fishermen like Peter and John may not have known as much about medicine as Doctor Luke.

4) Tradition isn't the best source for authorship, but many have stated that Luke wrote Acts for many years. The website

www.ccel.org

has a lot of reference material about Acts and all the Bible books, too.

Finally, no need to argue, unless it's all in fun! I hope you both will read Acts--there is something happening in just about every page. What a story of the Church, from Jerusalem to Rome, and it isn't finished yet!

Answer 4

The Acts of the Apostles replaced into written by potential of an identical person who wrote the gospel of Luke. They proportion comparable matters and comparable tale lines, and Acts makes connection with the faster artwork in its first financial disaster. Acts isn't written as a letter yet as a tale, like the gospels. most of the letters interior the hot testomony have been written by potential of Paul, yet scholars do not think of Paul write all the letters that are attributed to him. The letter to the Hebrews isn't Paul's, and there is info that the letters to Timothy and Titus weren't the two. And Ephesians, Colossians and 2d Thessalonians could or could not be Paul's. The gospels have been all written after Paul's demise, and so replaced into Acts.

Answer 5

Luke wrote the book of Acts.

Answer 6

I believe that whoever wrote the Gospel of Luke wrote the Book of Acts.

Here is evidence:

Luke 1:3
Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

Acts 1:1
In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach

This Luke is referred to as Like the Evangelist and also Luke the Apostle.

Answer 7

The book of Acts was wrote by Luke, a close examination of the book proves that Luke did write the book through various internal evidences, such as pronoun usage

Answer 8

Luke

Answer 9

Luke

Answer 10

It is almost universally agreed that the author of Acts also wrote the Gospel of Luke. This was most certainly not the apostle Luke, as he was undoubtedly illiterate and most likely died long before it was written.

The traditional view is that both books were written c. 60, though most scholars, believing the Gospel to be dependent (at least) on Mark's gospel, view the book(s) as having been written at a later date, sometime between 70 and 100.

'Scholars are about evenly divided on whether the attribution should be to Luke [the companion of Paul, not the apostle.] and he should be accepted as the historical source of Acts.

It is interesting that most Christians see them selves as being more knowledgeable about this than the biblical scholars who have devoted their lives and carers to the study of the bible.

Love and blessings Don