# Public Acts prints tentmaking as an artisan livelihood beside preaching

Date: 1611

## The fact

KJV Acts presents Paul as working a craft. Artisan self-support is a labour-respect heading of medium confidence because Acts is later, modest because it is one man’s trade as told.

## Context

Twin of the unfree-assembly row. This stores craft as livelihood.

[Paul the Apostle](/people/paul-the-apostle) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official Bible-society, Vatican, or library pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: New Advent — Acts of the Apostles (https://www.newadvent.org/bible/act001.htm; New Advent).

## Significance

Printed tentmaking is not a guild charter.

Printed tentmaking is not a guild charter.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Paul the Apostle: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-the-apostle

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Paul-the-Apostle
- https://www.newadvent.org/bible/act001.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-tentmaking-artisan