The Gospel writers do wish to authenticate Jesus as well as his message, but not as one sage among others. One Gospel writer, Luke, provides a second volume about Jesus’s agents. Here, in Acts, signs continue to attest Jesus more than his agents (except in the sense that it confirms that they are his agents); it is Jesus’s name that heals (Acts 3:6; 4:7, 10, 30; 16:18; 19:13, 17; cf. Acts 14:3; Luke 9:49; 10:17). The Jesus who healed in the first volume thus continues to perform the signs in the second, through his agents (see esp. Acts 9:34).[269]
