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Acts
God took Jesus up into heaven
Theyfoundamantotaketheplaceof Judas
The Holy Spirit came
Peter talked to the people at Jerusalem
Jesus’s followers shared everything together
A man couldn’t walk, but Peter got Jesus to make him better
Peter told the people about Jesus
Soldiers grabbed Peter and John
The Christians prayed together
The Christians shared all their things
A man and his wife tried to trick the Holy Spirit
Jesus’s followers got Jesus to make a lot of people better
An angel messenger opened the jail doors
The Christians picked 7 men to be church workers
The Jewish leaders grabbed Stephen
Stephen told the Jewish leaders a long story
Stephen talked about Moses
Stephen talked about God’s ceremony house
Stephen talked strong to the Jewish Leaders Council men
They killed Stephen with stones
Saul made trouble for the Christians
Philip went to Samaria
Philip talked to a man from Ethiopia
Saul kept on making trouble for Christians
Saul met Jesus
Saul told the people in Damascus about Jesus
Peter got Jesus to make a crippled man better
Peter got God to make a woman alive again
An angel messenger came to a Roman soldier
Peter had something like a dream while he was still awake
Peterwenttothe Roman soldier’s house
Peter told the Romans about Jesus
The Holy Spirit went into people that were not Jews
Peter told the Jewish Christians what God taught him
The Christian people in Antioch got strong
The Antioch Christians helped the Judea Christians
The big boss killed James, one of Jesus’s special workers
Peter walked out of the jail
Herod, the big boss, died
The Holy Spirit picked Barnabas and Saul for a special job
Barnabas and Saul went to Cyprus Island
Paul and Barnabas went to another place called Antioch
Paul told the Antioch people the message about Jesus
Paul and Barnabas told people about Jesus, in Iconium and Listra
In Listra Paul got Jesus to make a crippled man better
People threw big stones at Paul
Pauland Barnabas told the Derbi peopleaboutJesus
Pauland Barnabas helped the new churches ineachtown
Paul and Barnabas went back to Antioch
The church leaders had a meeting in Jerusalem
The church leaders wrote to the Christians that are not Jews
Paul and Barnabas stopped working with each other
Paul, Silas and Timothy told people about Jesus in lots of towns
Paul had something like a dream and saw a man from Macedonia country
A woman called Lydia believed in Jesus
Paul got Jesus to force a bad spirit out of a young woman
Paul told the jail boss that God can save him
Paul and Silas left Philippi
Paul told people in Thessalonica about Jesus
Some Jewish people made trouble for Paul and Silas
Paul told people in Beria about Jesus
Jewish people from Thessalonica made trouble for Paul
Paul was upset by all the statues in Athens
Paul talked to the Athens people about Jesus
Paul told the Athens council about the God that they didn’t know
Some council people believed in Jesus
Paul went to the city called Corinth
A Roman boss didn’t judge Paul
Priscilla and Aquila went to Ephesus with Paul
Paul went to Jerusalem, then to other places
Priscilla and Aquila told Apollos more about Jesus
Apollos helped the Christians in Akaya country
Paul helped some men follow Jesus
People in Asia country heard about Jesus
God gave Paul a lot of power
Some men that were not Christians tried to use Jesus’s power
Christians burned their books about bad magic
Some work-men got money from people that respected a woman god
Demetrius got a lot of people to go wild
The wild mob kept on shouting for 2 hours
An important government leader got the mob to settle down
Paul went to the countries called Macedonia and Greece
Luke, the man writing this story, went with Paul to Troas
Paul left Troas and went to Miletus
Paul talked to the Christian leaders of Ephesus
Paul told some Christians, “You will not see me again”
Paul asked God to look after the Christian leaders
The leaders said goodbye to Paul, and they were very sad
Luke, the man writing this story, went with Paul to Tyre
Christians told Paul not to go to Jerusalem, but he kept going anyway
Paul left Tyre and went to Caesarea
The Christians couldn’t stop Paul going to Jerusalem
Paul went on to Jerusalem
Paul agreed to do a Jewish ceremony
Some Jews grabbed Paul
Roman soldiers stopped the mob from killing Paul
The soldiers took Paul to their big house
Paul told the mob his story
Paul said that he had to go to people that are not Jews
Paul told the soldiers he was a Roman, so they didn’t whip him
The big boss soldier took Paul to the Jewish Leaders Council
A Jewish boss got angry with Paul
The soldiers took Paul away from the Jewish Leaders Council
Jesus told Paul that he will go to Rome
Some men said, “We will kill Paul”
A young man talked to the boss soldier
A lot of soldiers took Paul to a safe place
The Jewish leaders blamed Paul in Felix’s court
Paul said that the Jewish leaders were wrong
Felix stopped the court to wait for the big boss soldier to come
Felix wanted Paul to give him money to let him go free
Festus said that he will judge Paul in Caesarea
Paul asked for Caesar, the biggest boss, to judge him
Festus told Agrippa about Paul
Festus wanted Agrippa to help him write a letter about Paul
Paul talked to the big bosses
Paul said that he used to be a Pharisee man
Paul said that he used to hurt Christians
Paul said that he met Jesus
Paul said that he did everything Jesus told him to do
Paul’s message is the same as the message in God’s book
Paul wanted them all to become Christians
Agrippa said that Paul has to go to Rome
The Romans started to take Paul to Caesar, their biggest boss
Paul told the ship’s men to wait, but they kept going
Paul told everybody on the ship that they will not drown
Paul stopped the ship-men from leaving the ship
Paul got them all to eat some food to stay alive
The ship started to break up
The boss soldier saved Paul
A cheeky snake bit Paul
Paul got Jesus to make a lot of people better on Malta Island
We all sailed to Putioli, then we kept going by road
Christians came from Rome to meet Paul
Paul talked to the Jewish leaders in Rome
Paulsaid, “Peoplethatarenot Jews willbelieveGod’s message”

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