Holy Spirit in the Acts of the Apostles
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In Christianity, the Holy Spirit is seen as the third person of the Trinity (along with the Father God and the son, Jesus).[1]
The Acts of the Apostles (or the Book of Acts, or simply Acts) is the fifth book of the Christian New Testament. Following immediately after Jesus’s crucifixion, the book tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message beyond Israel.[2][3]
The Holy Spirit plays a key role in the Acts of the Apostles, leading to the use of the titles Book of the Holy Spirit or the Acts of the Holy Spirit for that book.[4][5]
The Book of Acts was written by Luke, who also wrote the Gospel of Luke. The book covers the history of the first 30 years of the Christian church. Of the about seventy occurrences of the word pneuma (πνεῦμα) in Acts, fifty-five refer to the Holy Spirit.[5]