Acts

Acts, Luke's second volume, tells how the good news spread from Jerusalem 'to the ends of the earth' in the decades after the resurrection. It opens with the ascension and Pentecost, where the Spirit is poured out and the church is born, and follows the apostles as the gospel breaks out beyond Israel.

Its hero in the second half is Paul, whose conversion and three missionary journeys carry the message across the Roman world to Rome itself. A story of the Holy Spirit at work through ordinary people, Acts is the indispensable bridge between the Gospels and the letters that follow.