Based on the Book, Acts of the Apostles
Table of Contents
Jesus' Followers Await Instructions
The Apostles and the Holy Spirit
First Church Sermon
Peter Challenges Worshippers
Peter Challenges Religious Leaders
The Church's First Problem
Second Office of the Church Established
Stephen Reviews O.T. History Leading Up to Jesus
Deacon Philip Spreads the Word
A Convert Falls
Conversion of a Future Apostle!
Conversion of First Non-Jew
Peter Defends Gentiles in Jewish Jerusalem
First Martyrdom of an Apostle
Paul's First Missionary Trip ~ c. AD48
Paul's Second Missionary Trip ~ c. AD50
Paul's Third Missionary Trip ~ c. AD54
Paul's Arrest ~ c. AD58
Paul's Trial Before the Jewish Sanhedrin
Paul's Trial Before Roman Governor Felix
Paul's Trial Before Roman Governor Festus
Paul's Trial Before Jewish/Roman King Agrippa
Shipwreck on the Way to Rome c. AD61
Paul Arrives in Rome to be Tried by Nero Caesar
The Holy Spirit in the First Sermon of the Church
Lesson Two:
Lesson Three:
Lesson Four:
Lesson Five:
Lesson Six:
Lesson Seven:
Lesson Eight:
Lesson Nine:
Lesson Ten:
Lesson Eleven:
Lesson Twelve
About AD 30-65
The four accounts of Jesus' life were named after their author ~ Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Acts was written by the same man who had previously written a life of Jesus to Theophilis ~ Luke. Luke was a physician (see Colossians 4:14).
The full name for Acts is "Acts of the Apostles." It starts with Jesus rising back to heaven, and the beginning of the church ten days later. The rest of the book tells how congregations were set up and how people became Christians in the first century. Much of it is the life of the Apostle Paul who wrote many letters/books in the New Testament by inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
JOSEPHUS, a respected Jewish historian who wrote about 100 AD, said this about the beginning of Christianity:
Now there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works ~ a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christian, so named from him, are not extinct at this day. [Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18, 3:3]
