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The majority of scholars “date Acts somewhere between AD 80 and 95.” Polhill dates Acts sometime between AD 70 to AD 80. Marshall dates the book sometime just before AD 70. However, we think that several strong lines of evidence date the book quite early—around AD 62. For a defense of this early date of Acts, see our earlier article, “Evidence for an Early Dating of the Four Gospels.”

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    Richard N. Longenecker, “The Acts of the Apostles,” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: John and Acts, ed. Frank E. Gaebelein, vol. 9 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1981), 236.

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    John B. Polhill, Acts, vol. 26, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1992), 30.

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    I. Howard Marshall, Acts: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 5, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1980), 51.

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James Rochford

James earned a Master’s degree in Theological Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, graduating magna cum laude. He is the founder of Evidence Unseen and the author of several books. James enjoys serving as a pastor at Dwell Community Church in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and their two sons.