Acts 1-4

S5E1 The Book of Acts: introduction

General Aspects of the Book of Acts (PDF)

Dramatis personae in Acts (PDF)

Recent commentaries on Acts used in this series (PDF)

S5E2 The Book of Acts: awaiting the promise (Acts 1.1-5)

Preface to Luke and to Acts compared (PDF)

Acts 1: keywords and shape (PDF)

S5E3 The Book of Acts: "You will receive power...and be my witnesses" (Acts 1.6-8)

Baptism in Acts (PDF)

“Israel” in Acts (PDF)

S5E4 The Book of Acts: "Why are you looking up at the sky?" (Acts 1.9-11)

Some “cloud” passages related to Acts 1.9 (PDF)

Jesus’ “ascension” in Luke-Acts (PDF)

S5E5 The Book of Acts: All were one mind in prayer (Acts 1.12-15)

Prayer in Acts (PDF)

S5E6 The Book of Acts: Peter stands up and calls on Scripture (Acts 1.16-17)

“Mirror structure” in Acts 1.15-26 (from Zwiep, PDF)

“David” in Acts (PDF)

Psalms used in Peter’s argument (PDF)

S5E7 The Book of Acts: Replacing Judas (Acts 1.18-22)

Judas’s demise in Matthew and Acts (PDF)

Luke 22.24-30 (PDF)

S5E8: The Book of Acts: Choosing Matthias (Acts 1.23-26)

“Casting Lots” in the Bible (PDF)

S5E9: The Book of Acts: Interpreting the Pentecost Story (Acts 2)

Interpreting the Pentecost Story in Acts 2 (PDF)

Acts 2 keywords and shape (PDF)

Festival of Shavu`ot before Acts 2 (PDF)

Luke words in Acts 2 (PDF)

S5E10: A roaring sound and tongues of fire (Acts 2.1-4)

Luke 4 and Acts 2 parallels (PDF)

C. Keener’s chart comparing Acts 2-3, 3-4 and 5 (PDF)

S5E11: Bewildered, amazed, astonished (Acts 2.5-13)

Language of “amazement” in Acts (PDF)

S5E12: Visions, dreams, and prophecies will pour forth! (Acts 2.14-21)

Outpouring of God’s Spirit in the Hebrew Scriptures (PDF)

Joel 2.1-3.2 annotated (PDF)

S5E13: Peter turns to David to explain Jesus's Messiahship (Acts 2.22-36)

David in Acts (PDF)

David as “anointed” in the Bible (PDF)

David in the Bible (mentions by book, PDF)

S5E14: "What should we do?" (Acts 2.37-41)

“What should we do” in Luke 3 and Acts 2 (PDF)

S5E15: All things in common with glad and generous hearts (Acts 2.42-47)

Summaries of discipleship in Acts 2-5 (PDF)

S5E16: Healing at the Beautiful Gate (Acts 3.1-8)

Acts 3 keywords and shape (PDF)

S5E17: Peter witnesses to the power of the Name (Acts 3.9-18)

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Peter promises times of refreshing to all the people (Acts 3.19-26)

Two “times” in Luke-Acts (PDF)

Prophets in Acts (PDF)

Repentance in Luke-Acts (PDF)

S5E19: Peter and John are arrested (Acts 4.1-4)

Acts 4 keywords and shape (PDF)

The chiastic centers of Acts 4 (PDF)

Arresting the apostles and disciples in Acts (PDF)

S5E20: "By what power or by what name?" (Acts 4.5-14)

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E5S21: The Sanhedrin huff and puff at Peter and John (Acts 4.15-22)

The Sanhedrin in Acts (PDF)

E5S22: A holy conspiracy (Acts 4.23-31)

Opponents in Acts 4 (PDF)

E5S23: All were of one heart and one life (Acts 4.31-35)

Acts summaries (PDF)

“Filled with the Holy Spirit” in Acts (PDF)

Deuteronomy 15.4-11 chiasm (PDF)

E5S24: Two responses to the invitation to share all (Acts 4.36-5.6)

Acts 5 shape and keywords (PDF)

Barnabas in Acts (PDF)