After Herod spent some time in Caesarea, Luke provides the story beginning in Acts 12:20 at how Herod was brought to his final demise by God. After Herod cut off the food supply to the people of Tyre and Sidon,…
Sometime before Agabus’ prophecy of severe famine throughout the Roman Empire, Herod Agrippa I, ruler of Palestine, began to violently seize Christians in Jerusalem. He executed James, the brother of John, making James the first apostle martyred. When Herod observed…
Continuing the dramatic narrative of Cornelius’ conversion in Acts 10:9, as Cornelius’ servants and soldier were approaching Joppa, Peter was on the rooftop of Simon Tanner’s house, engaged in earnest prayer to God. While others in the house were preparing…
While Peter was in Lydda, Luke introduces a disciple in Acts 9:36 named Tabitha who lived in Joppa. Tabitha (translated as Dorcas in Greek) wonderfully embodied the commands of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount, continually doing good to…