A cast out demons, and the lame and those paralyzed were healed by him (Acts 8).
7. When Paul approached Damascus, he saw a vision, and immediately became an evangelist (Acts 9). 8. Peter healed Aeneas in Lydda, who was a paralytic and had been lying on a pallet for 36 years (Ibid.). 9. Peter in Joppa raised the dead Dorcas, who was also called Tabitha, by pouring forth a prayer (Ibid.). 10. Peter saw a vessel lowered from heaven, full of every kind of animal (Acts 10). 11. Peter, being kept and bound in prison, was freed by an angel, the soldiers not knowing it; and Herod, eaten by worms, expired (Acts 13). 12. In Cyprus, Paul rebuked the sorcerer Elymas, and the sorcerer himself became blind (Acts 13). 13. In Lystra, Paul healed one who had been lame from birth, in the name of the Lord (Acts 14). 14. Paul was called to Macedonia by a vision (Acts 16). 15. Paul cleansed a woman having a spirit of divination in Philippi (Ibid.). 16. Paul and Silas were cast into prison, and had their feet bound in the stocks; but at midnight an earthquake occurred, and their bonds were loosed (Ibid.). 17. From Paul’s body, handkerchiefs were carried to the sick and those oppressed by demons, and they were healed (Acts 19). 18. In Troas, Paul raised Eutychus, who had fallen from the window and was dead, saying: His soul is in him B. (Acts 20). 19. As Paul sailed for Rome, he and all those with him in the ship were caught in a storm for fourteen days and nights; and when all expected to die, the Lord stood by Paul and said to him: For your sake I grant these their lives; and they were saved (Acts 27). 20. When Paul went out from the ship, a viper bit him; and although all supposed he would die, when he remained unharmed, they thought he was a God (Acts 28). C 21. Paul healed the father of Publius on the island, who was suffering from dysentery, by laying his hands on him, and he healed many other sickly people (Ibid.).
AND ANOTHER, AN ARGUMENT OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
A Although the book is entitled "The Acts of the Apostles," it for the most part contains the actions of Paul, which Luke knew accurately, as he had been his fellow-traveler and messmate, and had ministered to him in many necessities. It was necessary, however, that he should begin with the actions of the other apostles; for he could not otherwise have carefully followed the history of Paul unless the history of the apostles had been prefixed. For how would Paul’s cruelty and ferocity before he approached the preaching B have been made manifest? Or his consent to the slaughter of his kinsman Stephen? And his unexpected calling and conversion to those whom up to that time he had persecuted? And the danger he endured for the sake of those things which he had previously persecuted, and by which, in the time of his subsequent life, he provoked the Jews and compelled them to rage to the point of madness? None of these things would have been known to us had not the history of the apostles gone before. Furthermore, if he had begun from Paul himself, he would have been forced to use digressions in order to teach those things which had happened to him, and thus the tenor of the narrative would have been hindered by including many things without which nothing that was said about Paul could be made manifest. In order, therefore, to make the discourse about Paul easily understandable and free from burden, he began with the common discourse about the apostles. But after he arrived at the part concerning Paul, Luke reached the goal he had intended for himself from this point, and leaving the discourse about the others, he remained only with him whom he had intended from the beginning. C He did not write about either the death of Paul or his second arraignment before Nero, even though he was with Paul at that time, as Paul himself wrote, "Luke is alone with me" (II Tim. iv, 11); either because it was not his intention to bring the History to its conclusion, but only to show his approach to Christ and how many labors he undertook, or because time was not given to him to place an end on the subject which he had conceived from the beginning. For there was much turmoil and affliction that hung over the disciples of the Lord from persecutors in the beginning. Although, however, the present book promises at the beginning of the narrative the "Acts of the Apostles," as we noted above, that it may be stated more clearly, the Acts of the holy Spirit are contained in it. For as soon as the Spirit came upon the apostles, all the wonderful things that were accomplished through them we learn through this book, the Spirit, that is to say, doing these things through them. But also of the