Holy Spirit in the Acts of the Apostles

Following immediately after Jesus’s crucifixion, the book tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message beyond Israel.

Of the about seventy occurrences of the word pneuma (πνεῦμα) in Acts, fifty-five refer to the Holy Spirit.

"[6] In addition to the Holy Spirit and in its impacts on the Book of Acts, this includes God’s direct communication to Paul the Apostle as told in the story of the Road to Damascus.

This encounter had a very pivotal effect in terms of Paul's defense against the authorities of the Jewish clerics and the Roman Empire.

The book ends with Paul in a Roman prison, preaching the news of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to his guards and visitors (Acts 27:23-31).