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Acts
Opening considerations
A link to Luke
Jesus returns to Heaven
A replacement for Judas Iscariot
Pentecost
People from all over
Peter’s proclamation
The reaction
The beginning of the Church
All things in common
A man lame from birth
Peter heals him
Peter preaches
Peter and John arrested
Peter’s defense
Rulers impressed
They are forbidden to use the name ‘Jesus’
The reaction of the believers
The young Church consolidates
Ananias and Sapphira
The Apostles distinguish themselves
Sadducees vs Apostles
Apostles infuriate Sadducees
Gamaliel counsels Sadducees
Sadducees beat and threaten Apostles
Enter deacons
Stephen in a kangaroo court
Stephen’s discourse
Down to Egypt
Enter Moses
Moses commissioned
Israel’s rebellion
A dwelling for God
Stephen attacks
Stephen is martyred
Philip’s ministry
Simon the sorcerer
The Ethiopian treasurer
Saul of Tarsus
Jesus chooses Saul
Ananias sent to Saul
Saul starts preaching
Saul escapes death
Barnabas vouches for Saul
A brief respite
Peter’s ministry
Peter heals Aeneas
Peter raises Dorcas
The case of Cornelius
God prepares Peter
The messengers arrive
On to Caesarea
Peter preaches
The Holy Spirit falls
Peter has to explain
Enter Barnabas
Enter Agabus
Enter Herod
Enter angel
Enter Rhoda
Poor guards
Herod gets his ‘comeuppance’
The Gentile Church
Missionary journey I—Barnabas and Saul→Paul
1st stop—Cyprus
On to Pisidian Antioch
Paul expounds the Gospel
The reaction
Iconium
Lystra
Paul stoned
The return to Antioch
The Jerusalem Council
The conflict
The Council
The edict
Good results
Missionary journey II—Paul and Silas
Paul and Barnabas separate
Paul finds Timothy
The ‘Macedonian call’
Philippi
Prison
The Jailor Converts
Magistrates Rebuked
Thessalonica
Berea
Athens
The Areopagus
Consolidation of the Gentile Church
Corinth
The house of Justus becomes the base
Gallio
To Ephesus and Antioch
Apollos
Back to Ephesus
Disciples of John
The school of Tyrannus becomes the base
Some fake exorcists
Demetrius
Paul makes his own plans
Greece
Troas
Miletus
Paul is warned—again
Agabus
Jerusalem
Paul submits to a false agenda
Paul arrested
Paul addresses the mob
A Roman citizen
The Sanhedrin
A plot exposed
Paul sent to Felix
Caesarea
Felix
Festus
Agrippa
Paul’s defense
How he persecuted Christians
How Jesus chose him
Festus interrupts
Paul sent to Rome
A difference of opinion
The storm
Malta
Rome
Paul and the Jews
Two tranquil years

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