Acts
How each chapter begins
- Acts 1
In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,
- Acts 2
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
- Acts 3
One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
- Acts 4
While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees…
- Acts 5
Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.
- Acts 6
In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the…
- Acts 7
Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
- Acts 8
And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in…
- Acts 9
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high…
- Acts 10
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
- Acts 11
The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
- Acts 12
About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.
- Acts 13
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen…
- Acts 14
At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of…
- Acts 15
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom…
- Acts 16
Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and…
- Acts 17
When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
- Acts 18
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
- Acts 19
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples
- Acts 20
When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples. And after encouraging them, he said goodbye to them and left…
- Acts 21
After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to…
- Acts 22
“Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.”
- Acts 23
Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to…
- Acts 24
Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the…
- Acts 25
Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
- Acts 26
Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his…
- Acts 27
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named…
- Acts 28
Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.