Following his emotional address to the Ephesians elders, Paul and his traveling companions left Miletus, sailing through Cos, Rhodes, and Patara, ultimately traveling past Cyprus to Tyre in Syria. The men stayed in Tyre for 7 days as the ship…
In Acts 7:30, Stephen resumed describing the calling of Moses the deliverer. At age 80, the Angel of the Lord appeared to him at Mt. Sinai. As Moses drew near to see the bush that seemed to be burning but…
As Peter continued his Pentecost sermon, he cited the prophecy of David in Psalm 16:8-11. What surely surprised this Jewish audience was Peter’s identification of David’s prophecy to be as spoken by this promised Descendant of David. Thus, the words…
As a crowd gathered around the Spirit-filled witnessing believers on the day of Pentecost, Peter arose as a spokesperson in Acts 2:14 and delivered a loud, formal, solemn utterance to this crowd of countrymen – residents of Jerusalem. Since they…
After the exiled Jews returned to Jerusalem by the decree of King Cyrus, they eventually completely stopped their efforts to rebuild the temple of worship to God. Their activity of being discouraged from continuing to rebuild is described in Ezra…
After having studied Matthew’s narrative of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, we again returned to this same Resurrection passage to better understand the theological implications of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We noted that Matthew 1-27 describes the period of…