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Acts opens with “Ye Shall Be Witnesses” and carries its history toward “To Caesar Thou Shalt Go.” Forty days of instruction, a cloud, and a question about timing that gets no answer. Fourteen days in a storm, a ship run aground and every passenger safe, then a viper on Malta that does no harm.

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A clear path through the book’s major scenes, turning points, teachings, and lasting themes.

01
Acts 1–7
Ye Shall Be Witnesses
Forty days of instruction, a cloud, and a question about timing that gets no answer. A hundred and twenty wait in a room, a replacement apostle is chosen by lot, and then wind and fire and a crowd hearing their own languages. Three thousand are baptised in a day. A lame man walks, a couple lie about money and die, and Stephen preaches a sermon that gets him stoned by a crowd whose coats are held by a young man named Saul.
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Rise Up and Walk
Stephen's Martyrdom
Why Hast Thou Conceived This Thing?
Tongues of Fire
In the Name of Jesus Christ
A Face Like an Angel
Every Tongue
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Every Tongue
02
Acts 8–12
The Persecution Scatters Them
The church is driven out of Jerusalem and the message goes with it. Philip preaches in Samaria and then to an Ethiopian official reading aloud in a chariot on a desert road. Saul is knocked flat outside Damascus and blinded, and a nervous man named Ananias is sent to him anyway. Peter is shown a sheet of unclean animals three times, goes into a Roman centurion’s house, and afterwards has to explain himself to the others.
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God Is No Respecter of Persons
Saul, Saul, Why Persecutest Thou Me?
The Iron Gate Opened
What Doth Hinder Me to Be Baptized?
A Face Like an Angel
What Hindereth Me?
Saul, Saul
God Is No Respecter of Persons
Sent Out
03
Acts 13–15
Separate Me Barnabas and Saul
The church at Antioch sends two men out and the first journey begins. A sorcerer is struck blind, a crowd tries to sacrifice to them as gods, and back in Jerusalem the council decides not to put a yoke on Gentile believers.
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It Seemed Good to the Holy Ghost
No Greater Burden
04
Acts 16–20
A Man of Macedonia, and an Unknown God
A dream turns the mission toward Europe. A slave girl is freed of a spirit and her owners riot over the lost income, a midnight earthquake opens a jail, and in Athens Paul preaches from an altar inscribed to an unknown god.
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At Midnight Paul and Silas Sang
Great Is Diana of the Ephesians
The Unknown God
Come Over and Help Us
05
Acts 21–26
Arrested on the Temple Steps
A rumour about a Greek in the temple starts a riot, and Paul asks permission to address the mob from the stairs. He is passed between a tribune, two governors and a king, and recounts the road to Damascus to each of them.
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Almost Thou Persuadest Me
To Rome
06
Acts 27–28
To Caesar Thou Shalt Go
Fourteen days in a storm, a ship run aground and every passenger safe, then a viper on Malta that does no harm. The last verse leaves him in Rome in his own hired house, teaching everyone who comes, with nobody forbidding him.
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Preaching the Kingdom with All Confidence
There Shall Be No Loss of Any Man
To Rome