Written by Luke the beloved physician (Col 4:14), Luke-Acts seamlessly connects the life of Jesus to the lives of the early Apostles after the resurrection. The gospel of Luke is about what Jesus ...

The Book of Acts is the story of the establishment of Christianity in the first three decades of its existence. It relates ...

A - Acts 2:14,22-28 * Then Peter stood up with the Eleven ... Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man's blood upon us." But Peter and the apostles said in reply, ...

It was not even a formal sect of Judaism. Peter was the movement's first champion; in the Acts of the Apostles we hear of his mass conversions and miraclemaking—healing the lame, raising the ...

The consequence of that blindness is seen in the last line of the above passage, one that seems never to appear in artistic ...

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When you read the book of Acts (The Acts of the Apostles), you will notice the central role Peter and John played, providing leadership to the early church in Jerusalem (James was killed by Herod as ...

Thecla's story is one of many in the Apocryphal Acts which portray women giving up riches and sexual activity to follow the Apostles. She is an aristocratic woman who, despite great opposition ...

(Acts 2:4) Pentecost occurs ten days after the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Acts of the Apostles tells us that during this time the "apostles were constantly at prayer together, and with ...

In the Bible, the book called the Acts of the Apostles describes this event and how angels, described as ‘men dressed in white’, helped the apostles to understand what was happening ...

In this way, the Apostles’ Creed is not just theology, but doxology, and as it is so often included in the liturgy of Christian worship services, it is meant to be recited together, as a body of ...