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Explain the Purpose of Acts of the Apostles. "In one sense Acts is the most important book in the New Testament. It is the simple truth that if we did not possess Acts, we would have, apart from what we could deduce from the letters of Paul, no information whatever about the early church." - William Barclay (Acts of the Apostles 1976). This book is called the "Acts of the Apostles" but other from Paul this book only mentions three other Apostles, in Acts 12:2 we get a brief account that says James, brother of John was executed by Herod, john also appears in the book, but he never speaks, nor are we given any information about him. Peter is the only other Apostle (apart from Paul) who the Author goes into any detail on. But even Peter, Jesus' rock, soon fades from the scene. In Greek there is no 'The' at...

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