There has been much discussion about who wrote the book of Acts. Professor Riggs of Auburn Theological Seminary said, “Public opinion has changed direction in recent years and is now leaning strongly toward first-century authorship” (Riggs, 38). The first vision of the church states that Luke is the author of Acts. External evidence agrees with the tradition that Luke wrote the book of Acts. The early church fathers, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Eusebius, provide evidence that Luke is the author (Lea & Black, 282). The Muratorian Canon (190 AD) contains a list of books of the New Testament and lists the author of Acts and the Third Gospel as Luke. There is also internal evidence pointing to Luke as the author. In both Luke and Acts, the author uses medical phraseology. In Acts 28:8, Publius' father was sick with a fever and had a blood issue. Other examples can be found in Acts 10:10 and 16:16 (Riggs, 41-42). Luke was a doctor and this would explain why he used medical terms when he wrote the book of Acts. Considering the external and internal evidence, Carson and Moo...