Original sentence: He appears in the Book of Acts, verses  , where he tries to offer money to the Apostles in exchange for miraculous abilities, specifically the power of Laying on of hands
Edited sentence: He appears in the Book of Acts (written by St.Luke, whose account of early church history has held up astonishingly well to the light of modern archaeology), verses  , where he tries to offer money to the Apostles in exchange for miraculous abilities, specifically the power of Laying on of hands