Luke–Acts

Luke–Acts is the composite work of the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.

Both the books of Luke and Acts are narratives written to a man named Theophilus.

[1] The book of Acts starts out with: "The former treatise have I made", probably referring to the Gospel of Luke.

[6] It divides the history of first-century Christianity into three stages, with the gospel making up the first two of these – the arrival among men of Jesus the Messiah, from his birth to the beginning of his earthly mission in the meeting with John the Baptist followed by his earthly ministry, Passion, death, and resurrection (concluding the gospel story per se).

[7] The work is Hellenized and written for a gentile audience possibly, in part, to counter a gnostic understanding of history.