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 The Book of Acts

 “In the more important MSS. of the New Testament, the title is not ‘The Acts of the Apostles,’ but ‘Acts of Apostles,’ and in one very important MS., the Sinaitic, the book is called simply ‘Acts.’ These titles describe the book much better; it does not contain all the acts, nor even the principal acts of all the Apostles, but only a few selected deeds of some of the Apostles. It is a record of Apostolic Acts, not of the Acts of the Twelve Apostles.”

(Hand-Books for Bible Classes and Private Students, Edited by Marcus Dods and Alexander Whyte, The Acts of the Apostles—Chapters I.-XII. by Thomas M. Lindsay, Edinburg: T. & T. Clark, 11; e-book)