Acts

The Jewish chief priests and the Roman governors in Judea form a pitiful contrast to the inhabitants of Melita (now known as the island of...

No story of the sea is more fascinating, and perhaps none is more widely known, than the record of the shipwreck suffered by Paul and his...

Paul’s address before Agrippa is much more than a defense of his own innocence, or a review of his personal religious experience; it is a...

Paul’s appeal to Caesar was due to no impatience or anger or cowardice on his part; but rather, to the indecision, injustice, and treachery of...

The cause of Paul was prejudiced, and his life was imperiled, by his being placed on trial before a judge of such a cruel and immoral character...

As the last chapter closed, we found the Roman chief captain summoning the Jewish Sanhedrin to convene, and bringing Paul before them so that...

The defense which Paul gives to the angry mob gathered around the stairs upon which he stood seems, at first, to be a mere recital of his own...

After leaving Miletus, Paul passed on to Tyre and Ptolemais, and then to Jerusalem. The brief account of the conclusion of this voyage fixes...

With surprising brevity, Luke sketches the journey of Paul to Macedonia and Achaia. But the Second Epistle to the Corinthians throws a clear...

The record of Apollos, in the last chapter, prepares us for the strange experience which awaited Paul upon his arrival in Ephesus. Apollos had...

The experience through which Paul passed at Corinth was a distinct crisis in his life. The causes of his discouragement were such as are common...

A journey of about 100 miles (161 km) southwest from Philippi brought Paul to Thessalonica; and then, proceeding about 50 miles (81 km) farther...

It was in the church at Antioch that a problem arose which caused Paul to be sent to Jerusalem as a delegate to the first Council of the...

At the end of the last chapter, Paul and Barnabas were expelled from Antioch in Pisidia; but they moved onward until they reached Iconium....

When Barnabas and Saul set sail for Cyprus from Seleucia, the seaport of Antioch, the voyage was probably of no interest to the world of their...

The position and the contents of this chapter should be carefully observed. It closes the section of the Book which tells how the Church was...

The news of the conversion of Cornelius was not slow in reaching Jerusalem, and the Jewish believers there immediately called Peter to account...

Possibly Cornelius was not the first Gentile convert to Christianity, but he was the first Gentile whose conversion is recorded in the...

The conversion of Saul of Tarsus, who is better known as Paul the Apostle, was an event of supreme importance in the history of the Church and...

The death of Stephen had an immediate and startling effect. By it, the fires of a fierce persecution were lighted; and of this persecution,...