The Early Church · New Testament
Acts
Acts is book 44 of 66 and belongs to the Early Church in the New Testament. It has 28 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 125 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- Acts 1: Waiting to become witnesses
The risen Jesus instructs the apostles to remain in Jerusalem and wait for the promised Holy Spirit. Their question about the kingdom's restoration… - Acts 2: Acts 2: the Spirit at Pentecost and Peter's sermon
On the day of Pentecost the company hears a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, sees cloven tongues like as of fire, and begins to speak… - Acts 3: Acts 3: a lame man healed and Peter's speech in Solomon's porch
Peter and John go up into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. A man lame from his mother's womb, carried daily to the gate called… - Acts 4: Acts 4: Peter and John before the council and the believers' prayer
While Peter and John are still speaking, the priests, the captain of the temple and the Sadducees come upon them, grieved that they taught the people… - Acts 5: Acts 5: Ananias and Sapphira, the opened prison, and Gamaliel's counsel
Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sells a possession, keeps back part of the price and brings the rest to the apostles. Peter asks why Satan filled… - Acts 6: Acts 6: seven men chosen and charges brought against Stephen
As the number of the disciples grows, the Grecians murmur against the Hebrews because their widows are neglected in the daily ministration. The… - Acts 7: Acts 7: Stephen's speech and his death outside the city
The high priest asks Stephen whether the charges are so, and Stephen answers with a review of Israel's past. He begins with the God of glory… - Acts 8: Acts 8: scattering from Jerusalem, Philip in Samaria and on the Gaza road
Saul consents to Stephen's death, and a great persecution scatters the church from Jerusalem through Judea and Samaria, with the apostles excepted… - Acts 9: Acts 9: Saul near Damascus, and Peter at Lydda and Joppa
Saul, breathing out threatenings and slaughter, gets letters to the synagogues at Damascus so he can bring believers bound to Jerusalem. Near the… - Acts 10: Acts 10: Cornelius sends for Peter and the Spirit falls on Gentiles
Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band at Cesarea, is described as devout, fearing God with all his house, giving much alms and… - Acts 11: Acts 11: Peter explains himself at Jerusalem and the church at Antioch
News reaches the apostles and brethren in Judea that the Gentiles have received the word of God, and when Peter comes to Jerusalem those of the… - Acts 12: Acts 12: James killed, Peter brought out of prison, and Herod's death
Herod the king lays hands on certain of the church and kills James the brother of John with the sword. Seeing that this pleased the Jews, he takes… - Acts 13: Acts 13: Barnabas and Saul sent from Antioch and Paul's synagogue sermon
At Antioch the prophets and teachers are Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. As… - Acts 14: Acts 14: Iconium, the stoning at Lystra, and the return to Antioch
At Iconium the two speak in the synagogue and a great multitude of Jews and Greeks believe, but unbelieving Jews turn the Gentiles against them. They… - Acts 15: Acts 15: the council at Jerusalem and the letter to the Gentiles
Certain men from Judea teach the brethren that circumcision after the manner of Moses is required for salvation. Paul and Barnabas dispute with them… - Acts 16: Acts 16: Timotheus joins Paul, Lydia believes, and the Philippian jail opens
At Derbe and Lystra Paul finds Timotheus, a disciple whose mother is a Jewess who believed and whose father is a Greek, and who is well reported of… - Acts 17: Acts 17: Thessalonica, Berea, and Paul's speech on Mars' hill
Paul reasons out of the scriptures for three sabbath days in the synagogue at Thessalonica, and some believe along with many devout Greeks and chief… - Acts 18: Acts 18: Corinth, Gallio's refusal, and Apollos taught at Ephesus
Paul leaves Athens for Corinth and finds Aquila, a Jew born in Pontus, and his wife Priscilla, lately come from Italy because Claudius commanded all… - Acts 19: Acts 19: Ephesus, the sons of Sceva, and the uproar over Diana
While Apollos is at Corinth, Paul comes to Ephesus and finds disciples who say they have not heard whether there be any Holy Ghost and were baptized… - Acts 20: Acts 20: Eutychus at Troas and the farewell to the Ephesian elders
After the uproar Paul embraces the disciples and goes into Macedonia and on to Greece for three months, then returns through Macedonia because of a… - Acts 21: Acts 21: the road to Jerusalem and Paul's arrest in the temple
The voyage runs by Coos, Rhodes and Patara, then by ship past Cyprus to Tyre, where disciples say to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up… - Acts 22: Acts 22: Paul's defence in the Hebrew tongue and his claim of Roman birth
The chapter opens inside the speech begun on the castle stairs. Paul asks the crowd to hear his defence, and the narrator notes in an aside that they… - Acts 23: Acts 23: the divided council, the plot of forty men, and the night ride to Cesarea
Paul tells the council he has lived in all good conscience before God until this day, and the high priest Ananias commands those by him to smite him… - Acts 24: Acts 24: Tertullus accuses, Paul answers, and Felix defers for two years
After five days Ananias the high priest comes down with elders and an orator named Tertullus, who informs the governor against Paul. Tertullus thanks… - Acts 25: Acts 25: Festus hears the case and Paul appeals unto Cesar
Three days after entering the province Festus goes up from Cesarea to Jerusalem, where the high priest and the chief of the Jews inform him against… - Acts 26: Acts 26: Paul before Agrippa and the answer almost thou persuadest me
Agrippa permits Paul to speak for himself. Paul says he is happy to answer before a king expert in the customs and questions of the Jews, and that… - Acts 27: Acts 27: the voyage toward Italy and the shipwreck
The narration says we as Paul and other prisoners are delivered to Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band, for the sail into Italy, with Aristarchus… - Acts 28: Acts 28: Melita, the road to Rome, and two years in a hired house
The survivors learn the island is Melita, and the barbarous people kindle a fire and receive them out of the rain and cold. A viper fastens on Paul's…
