As Roman soldiers were escorting the shackled Paul to the barracks, he courteously inquired of the tribune whether he might be permitted a word. His fluent Greek made the tribune realize his mistake; he had mistaken Paul for a fugitive…
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,…
After Peter’s explanation of God’s amazing grace to the “circumcision party,” where they responded to Peter’s speech by glorifying God for granting repentance that leads to life for Gentiles, Luke then flashed back in his narrative by resuming the events…
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…
Beginning in Acts 9:19, we observed the result of what happens when someone savingly encounters Jesus. Saul was now a dramatically changed man, and he immediately began to preach throughout the synagogues of Damascus that Jesus IS the Son of…
Luke then resumed a description of Saul’s persecution of the church in Acts 9. As he breathed out murderous threats against Christians, he requested letters from the high priest to take to Damascus to expand his persecution there of people…