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David Wood (born April 7, 1976) [4] [5] is an American evangelical apologist, philosopher [6] [7] and YouTube personality, who is the head of the Acts 17 Apologetics ministry, [8] which he co-founded with Nabeel Qureshi. [9]
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the ...
The Acts of John refers to a collection of stories about John the Apostle that began circulating in written form as early as the 2nd-century AD. Translations of the Acts of John in modern languages have been reconstructed by scholars from a number of manuscripts of later date. The Acts of John are generally classified as New Testament apocrypha.
Josephus and Luke-Acts are thought to be approximately contemporaneous, around AD 90, and Eusebius wrote some two and a quarter centuries later. More indirect evidence can be obtained from other New Testament writings, early Christian apocrypha, and non-Christian sources such as the correspondence between Pliny and Trajan (AD 112).
Beckford was born to Jamaican parents in Northampton, in the East Midlands of England, and was raised in an African-Caribbean diaspora church. [2] He states that his "white, middle-class" religious education teacher "turned me on in a big way to RE and sowed the seeds to think critically about religion and culture", while his maths tutor introduced him to theo-politics and activism of Malcolm X.
Jesus heals a paralytic and forgives the paralyticś sins, Jesus calls a tax collector, Matthew as a disciple, Jesus feeds crowds of thousands in Galilee , walks on water and brings a dead man, Lazarus, back to life ; Jesus enters Jerusalem riding on a donkey – a declaration that he is the Messiah; Jesus turns on the money-changers in the ...
A 9th- or 10th-century manuscript of the Gospel of Nicodemus in Latin. The Gospel of Nicodemus, also known as the Acts of Pilate [1] (Latin: Acta Pilati; Ancient Greek: Πράξεις Πιλάτου, romanized: Praxeis Pilatou), is an apocryphal gospel purporting to derived from an original work written by Nicodemus, who appears in the Gospel of John as an acquaintance of Jesus.