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After he rose, Jesus taught his followers for forty days. He promised that the Holy Spirit would come and that they would be his witnesses. Then he was taken up into a cloud, and two men in white said he would come back in the same way. The followers prayed together, and Matthias was chosen to join the eleven apostles.
On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came on the believers with a sound like wind and tongues like fire. They spoke in other languages, and visitors from many nations heard the mighty works of God in their own languages. Peter preached that God raised Jesus and made him Lord and Christ. About three thousand were baptized, and the believers shared their lives, prayed, and broke bread together.
Peter and John went to the temple at the hour of prayer. A man who had been lame from birth asked them for gifts. Peter said he had no silver or gold, but in the name of Jesus Christ he told the man to walk, and the man leaped up praising God. Peter told the amazed crowd that the healing came by faith in Jesus' name, and he called them to repent and turn to God.
Peter and John were arrested for teaching that Jesus rose from the dead, yet about five thousand men believed. Before the council Peter said the lame man was healed by the name of Jesus Christ, and that there is salvation in no other name. Ordered to stop, they said they could not help telling what they had seen and heard. The believers prayed for boldness, the place was shaken, and they shared everything they had.
Ananias and his wife Sapphira lied about the price of land they sold, and both died, and great fear came on the church. The apostles did many signs, and people brought the sick to be healed. The jealous high priest put the apostles in prison, but an angel opened the doors and sent them back to teach. Before the council Peter said they must obey God rather than men; Gamaliel advised leaving them alone, and they left rejoicing and kept teaching about Jesus.
The Greek-speaking widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food, so the apostles asked the believers to choose seven men full of the Spirit and wisdom to serve. The apostles kept to prayer and the word, and the word of God increased. Stephen, one of the seven, did great wonders, and when opponents could not withstand his wisdom, they brought false witnesses against him before the council. All who looked at him saw his face like the face of an angel.
Asked about the charges, Stephen retold Israel's story, from God's promise to Abraham to Joseph in Egypt and Moses at the burning bush, and how the people often resisted the ones God sent. He said God does not dwell in houses made with hands and charged his hearers with resisting the Holy Spirit. Full of the Spirit, he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand. His hearers threw him out of the city and stoned him while Saul watched, and Stephen prayed that the Lord would not hold this sin against them.
After Stephen's death a great persecution scattered the believers, and Saul ravaged the church, but those scattered went about preaching the word. Philip proclaimed the Christ in Samaria, with signs and great joy; Simon the sorcerer believed but tried to buy the gift of God and was rebuked by Peter. An angel sent Philip to the desert road, where he explained Isaiah to an Ethiopian official, beginning from that Scripture to tell him about Jesus, and baptized him.
On the road to Damascus, Saul, who was hunting the disciples, was stopped by a light from heaven and the voice of Jesus. Blinded, he waited three days until Ananias, sent by the Lord, laid hands on him; Saul received his sight, was baptized, and began to preach that Jesus is the Son of God. Barnabas brought him to the apostles in Jerusalem. Peter healed Aeneas at Lydda and, at Joppa, raised Tabitha, a disciple full of good works.
Cornelius, a Roman centurion in Caesarea who feared God, prayed and gave to the needy, and an angel told him to send for Peter. At Joppa, Peter saw a vision of a sheet with animals and heard that what God has cleansed he must not call unclean. Peter went to Cornelius's house and said that God shows no favoritism. While Peter spoke about Jesus, the Holy Spirit fell on the Gentile hearers, and they were baptized.
Peter explained to the believers in Jerusalem how God gave the Holy Spirit to the Gentiles, and they glorified God for granting the Gentiles repentance to life. Scattered believers preached in Antioch, and a great number turned to the Lord. Barnabas, a good man full of the Spirit and faith, encouraged them and brought Saul to teach there for a year. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch, and they sent relief to the believers in Judea when a famine was foretold.
King Herod attacked the church, killed James the brother of John, and put Peter in prison, but the church prayed constantly for him. An angel woke Peter, his chains fell off, and he walked out past the guards. At the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, a servant girl named Rhoda was so glad at his voice that she forgot to open the gate. Later Herod accepted the people's praise as a god and an angel struck him, but the word of God grew and multiplied.
In Antioch, while the church worshiped and fasted, the Holy Spirit set apart Barnabas and Saul for the work he had called them to. They sailed to Cyprus, where the proconsul believed after Paul confronted Elymas the sorcerer. At Antioch of Pisidia Paul preached in the synagogue, retelling Israel's story and proclaiming that God raised Jesus, through whom forgiveness of sins is proclaimed. Many Gentiles rejoiced and believed, but opposition drove the missionaries on, filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.
At Iconium many believed, but when a plot arose the apostles fled to Lystra and Derbe. At Lystra Paul healed a man lame from birth, and the crowds tried to worship Paul and Barnabas as gods. The apostles tore their clothes and urged them to turn to the living God, who made heaven and earth and gives rain and fruitful seasons. Opponents stoned Paul, but he rose up, and the apostles went on, strengthening the disciples, appointing elders, and reporting how God had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Some teachers from Judea said Gentile believers must be circumcised to be saved, so Paul and Barnabas went to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem. Peter said God made no distinction, cleansing hearts by faith, and that all are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus. James concluded from the prophets that Gentiles who turn to God should not be troubled, apart from a few necessary things, and a letter was sent that brought joy. Later Paul and Barnabas disagreed about John Mark and went separate ways, Paul taking Silas.
Paul took Timothy along, and the Holy Spirit guided the team until a vision called them to Macedonia. At Philippi the Lord opened Lydia's heart, and she and her household were baptized. When Paul freed a slave girl from a spirit, her owners had Paul and Silas beaten and jailed. At midnight they prayed and sang hymns, an earthquake opened the doors, and the jailer asked what he must do to be saved. They told him to believe in the Lord Jesus, and he and his household were baptized and rejoiced.
In Thessalonica Paul reasoned from the Scriptures that the Christ had to suffer and rise, and some believed, but others stirred up a crowd. The people in Berea received the word eagerly and examined the Scriptures daily. In Athens, a city full of idols, Paul spoke at the Areopagus about the God who made the world, who gives life and breath to all and is not far from each one of us. He called all people to repent, pointing to the man God raised from the dead. Some mocked, others wanted to hear more, and some believed.
In Corinth Paul stayed with Aquila and Priscilla, who made tents as he did, and reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath. When some opposed him, he turned to the Gentiles, and Crispus the synagogue ruler believed with his household. The Lord told Paul in a vision not to be afraid, for he was with him, and Paul stayed a year and six months teaching the word. Gallio would not judge the case against Paul. Later Priscilla and Aquila explained the way of God more accurately to Apollos, who powerfully showed from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
In Ephesus Paul met disciples who knew only John's baptism; they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and received the Holy Spirit. Paul taught for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord. God worked special miracles by Paul's hands, and many who had practiced magic burned their books. A silversmith named Demetrius stirred up a riot, fearing loss of trade from the worship of Artemis, until the town clerk quieted the crowd and dismissed the assembly.
Paul traveled through Macedonia and Greece encouraging the believers. At Troas, while Paul talked late into the night, a young man named Eutychus fell from a window, and Paul embraced him and said his life was in him; they brought the boy in alive and were greatly comforted. At Miletus Paul called the elders of Ephesus, reminded them how he had served the Lord with humility, and told them to shepherd the flock. He reminded them of the words of the Lord Jesus, that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Then he knelt and prayed with them all, and they wept as he left.
On the way to Jerusalem, believers urged Paul through the Spirit not to go, and the prophet Agabus bound his own hands and feet with Paul's belt to show what would happen. Paul said he was ready to be bound and even to die for the name of the Lord Jesus, and the believers said, The Lord's will be done. In Jerusalem the brothers received him gladly, and he told what God had done among the Gentiles. In the temple some stirred up the crowd and seized Paul, but the commanding officer and soldiers took him away, and Paul asked to speak to the people.
Standing on the stairs, Paul told the crowd how he had once persecuted the Way, how a great light shone around him on the road to Damascus, and how Jesus spoke to him. Ananias restored his sight and told him he would be a witness for God to all people of what he had seen and heard. When Paul said the Lord had sent him to the Gentiles, the crowd shouted against him. The commanding officer ordered him examined by scourging, but Paul said he was a Roman citizen, and the officer was afraid and brought him before the council.
Before the council Paul said he had lived before God in all good conscience. When he said he was on trial for the hope of the resurrection, the Pharisees and Sadducees argued, and the commanding officer took Paul back to the barracks. The next night the Lord stood by Paul and told him to cheer up, for he must testify also at Rome. When more than forty people plotted against Paul, his sister's son warned the officer, who sent Paul safely by night with soldiers to Felix the governor at Caesarea.
Five days later the high priest Ananias came to Caesarea with elders and a speaker named Tertullus, who accused Paul before Felix the governor. Paul answered that he worshiped the God of his fathers, believing the Law and the Prophets, and had a hope in God that there will be a resurrection. He said he always practiced having a conscience void of offense toward God and men. Felix later heard Paul speak about faith in Christ Jesus, righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, and he sent him away until a convenient time. Paul was kept in custody two years.
When Festus became governor, the chief priests asked him to bring Paul to Jerusalem, but Festus heard the case at Caesarea. Paul said he had not sinned against the law, the temple, or Caesar. When Festus asked whether he would go to Jerusalem to be judged, Paul appealed to Caesar, and Festus said, To Caesar you shall go. King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea, and Festus told Agrippa that the charges were questions about their religion and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. Agrippa wished to hear Paul himself.
Paul told King Agrippa how he had lived as a Pharisee and once opposed the name of Jesus. On the road to Damascus a light brighter than the sun shone around him, and Jesus appointed him a servant and witness, sending him to open eyes and turn people from darkness to light. Paul said he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, and told how the Christ must suffer and rise. Festus said Paul was crazy, but Paul said he spoke words of truth and asked Agrippa if he believed the prophets. The king and governor agreed Paul had done nothing worthy of death or bonds.
Paul sailed for Italy as a prisoner with a centurion named Julius, who treated him kindly. Paul warned that the voyage would bring loss, but the centurion followed the ship's master, and a violent wind drove the ship for many days. When all hope was lost, Paul told them to cheer up, for an angel had said God had granted him all who sailed with him. Paul urged everyone to eat, gave thanks to God, and broke bread. The ship ran aground and broke apart, but all two hundred seventy-six escaped safely to land.
The people of the island of Malta showed uncommon kindness, kindling a fire for the shipwrecked travelers. A viper fastened on Paul's hand, but he shook it into the fire and was not harmed. Paul prayed, laid hands on the father of Publius, and healed him, and others on the island were cured. In Rome Paul was allowed to stay by himself with a soldier guarding him. He explained the Kingdom of God from the Law and the Prophets; some believed and some did not. For two whole years Paul stayed in his own rented house, welcoming all who came, preaching God's Kingdom and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.