Acts

The Last Days · The Transition Generation · The Gospel to the Nations

Acts is the story of the overlap. The new covenant community emerges while the Temple still stands. The gospel goes to the nations before Jerusalem falls.

This is not the story of the church age in general. It is the documented account of the transition generation—the final decades before the old covenant world ended.

Read First

• Preface — How to Read Acts

Chapter Index

• Acts 1 — The Ascension and the Promise of Power
• Acts 2 — Pentecost: The Last Days Begin
• Acts 3 — The Healing and the Call to Repent
• Acts 4 — The Boldness of the Apostles
• Acts 5 — Ananias, Sapphira, and the Growing Opposition
• Acts 6 — The Seven Chosen and Stephen's Arrest
• Acts 7 — Stephen's Speech: The Pattern of Rejection
• Acts 8 — The Gospel Beyond Jerusalem
• Acts 9 — Saul's Conversion
• Acts 10 — The Gentile Inclusion: Cornelius
• Acts 11 — The Defense of Gentile Baptism
• Acts 12 — Herod's Persecution and Death
• Acts 13 — The First Missionary Journey Begins
• Acts 14 — Lystra, Derbe, and the Return
• Acts 15 — The Jerusalem Council: Freedom from the Law
• Acts 16 — The Macedonian Call
• Acts 17 — Athens and the Unknown God
• Acts 18 — Corinth: The Lord Has Many People in This City
• Acts 19 — Ephesus and the Riot
• Acts 20 — Paul's Farewell to the Ephesian Elders
• Acts 21 — The Journey to Jerusalem and the Arrest
• Acts 22 — Paul's Defense Before the Crowd
• Acts 23 — The Plot and the Transfer to Caesarea
• Acts 24 — Paul Before Felix
• Acts 25 — Paul Before Festus: I Appeal to Caesar
• Acts 26 — Paul Before Agrippa
• Acts 27 — The Voyage and the Shipwreck
• Acts 28 — Rome: The Gospel Unhindered