After Felix deferred trying Paul’s case until any accusers arrived, Ananias, some elders, and a hired legal advocate named Tertullus showed up in Caesarea to present their case against Paul. Paul was summoned before the court, and Tertullus began by…
The day after the tribune discovered Paul’s citizenship, he unbound him and commanded the Sanhedrin to convene in order to ascertain the real reason why the Jews were accusing Paul. Standing before the council, Paul declared that he had lived…
As Paul eagerly waited for Silas and Timothy to rejoin him in Athens, his spirit became stirred within him with grief and anger at the sight of such an outwardly beautiful city that was submerged in idolatry. Such inward distress…
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…
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…
In Matthew 27:62, the chief priests and Pharisees made a petition to Pilate on the Sabbath asking him to authoritatively command the tomb in which Joseph of Arimathea buried Jesus to be made fully secure in order to prevent Jesus’…
In Matthew 27:45, Matthew describes the entire region of Judea becoming supernaturally engulfed in debilitating darkness for 3 straight hours from 12pm to 3pm. In those hours of Jesus’ crucifixion, this darkness symbolized the blackness of the desolation of His…