This Book, which, from the first ages, hath been called, THE ACTS OF THE
APOSTLES, is not to be considered as a history of what was done by all
the Apostles, who were dispersed into different nations; but only a
short view of the first establishment of the Christian Church. A part of
the preaching and action of St. Peter are related in the first twelve
chapters; and a particular account of St. Paul's apostolical labours in
the subsequent chapters. It was written by St. Luke the Evangelist, and
the original in Greek. Its history commences from the Ascension of
Christ our Lord and ends in the year sixty-three, being a brief account
of the Church for the space of about thirty years.