Reading the Bible The Acts of the Apostles is the second volume of Luke’s great work, dedicated to the history of primitive Christianity. Luke pays special attention to Paul, who from a passionate persecutor of Christians turned into one of the main apostles and is on his way to Rome to testify to his faith before the emperor… Known to domestic readers from such books as “Jesus and the Victory of God” and “What the apostle Paul actually said,” N. T. Wright appears this time as the author of a series of popular commentaries on the New Testament. Despite the declared genre of commentary, the author managed to create an extremely dynamic and expressive text that has independent artistic value. N.T. Wright sees his task not so much in giving a detached, detailed interpretation of the New Testament text, but in forming the reader’s personal attitude towards the events, characters and phenomena described.