Acts Quote by Philip Schaff

The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord.…

— Josh McDowell

In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses,…

— Craig Blomberg

“In the Gospels the emphasis is on the death of Christ. In the Epistles the emphasis is upon the resurrection of Christ. In the…

— J. Vernon McGee

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the…

— Joseph Butler

“With regard to the gospels, biblical scholarship has mixed-up theology with history, thereby turning the eschatology of the epistles into memoirs.”

— Eli Of Kittim

“When you place the four emerging “canonical” gospels alongside the Jesus documents that others had written, again and again it appears that the canonical…

— N.T. Wright

There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.

— Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

“This oldest Christology of all may be found in the preliterary traditions in Paul and the book of Acts, but it is not the…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“All Scripture is profitable first for "doctrine"! The same order is observed throughout the Epistles, particularly in the great doctrinal treatises of the apostle…

— Arthur W. Pink

“A grounded and responsible reading of Revelation begins with reading it first as we would read Paul’s Letters to the Galatians or Philippians or…

— David A. Desilva

“The book of Luke is the account of the Spirit-empowered ministry of Jesus on the earth, and Acts is the account of the Spirit-empowered…

— Mark Driscoll

“All of what preceded is the unknown (to us) backdrop to some familiar episodes in the Gospels.”

— Michael S. Heiser