<P> The Holy Spirit plays a key role in the Acts of the Apostles, leading to the use of the titles "Book of the Holy Spirit" or the "Acts of the Holy Spirit" for that book of the New Testament . Of the about seventy occurrences of the word Pneuma in Acts, fifty five refer to the Holy Spirit . </P> <P> From the start, in Acts 1: 2, the reader is reminded that the Ministry of Jesus, while he was on earth, was carried out through the power of the Holy Spirit and that the "acts of the apostles" are the continuing acts of Jesus, facilitated by the Holy Spirit . Acts thus presents the Holy Spirit as the "life principle" of the early Church and provides five separate and dramatic instances of its outpouring on believers in 2: 1 - 4, 4: 28 - 31, 8: 15 - 17, 10: 44 and 19: 6 . </P> <P> Also Stephen in Acts 7 reproachfully exclaims to the Jewish authorities--see Sanhedrin trial of Jesus: "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye ." Acts 7: 51 (KJV)--That means, as nobody ever told them before, they did not only resisted YHWH or Jesus, while he was on earth, but they resisted the Holy Spirit also thereafter! It reminds oneself about the sin against the Holy Spirit, which Jesus taught, that ascribing the miracles of Jesus to the devil, it is resisting the Holy Spirit's work through the life of Jesus . The context of the unpardonable sin is best described in this passage: </P>

Acts of the holy spirit in the book of acts