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The Acts of the Apostles
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Author:
Luke; see
note 3
1
in Luke 1.
Time of Writing:
A.D. 67 or 68, after the Gospel of Luke was written (
1:1
).
Place of Writing:
Perhaps Rome (cf.
Phil. 1:24
;
2 Tim. 4:11
).
Recipient:
Theophilus (
1:1
), see
note 3
2c
в in Luke 1.
Outline
I. Introduction
II. The preparation
A. Christ's preparation
1. Speaking to the disciples the things concerning the kingdom of God
2. Charging them to wait for the baptism in the Holy Spirit
B. Christ's ascension
C. The disciples' preparation
1. Persevering in prayer
2. Choosing Matthias
III. The propagation
A. In the Jewish land through the ministry of Peter's company
1. The Jewish believers' baptism in the Holy Spirit
a. The economical filling of the Holy Spirit
b. The peoples' amazement
2. Peter's first message to the Jews
a. Explaining the economical filling of the Holy Spirit
b. Witnessing of Jesus in His work, death, resurrection, and ascension
c. Entreating the Spirit-moved ones to repent, be baptized, and be saved
3. The beginning of the church life
4. Peter's second message to the Jews
a. The healing of a lame man
b. The message
1) Testifying of Jesus in His death and resurrection
2) Exhorting people to repent and turn that they may partake of the ascended and coming Christ
5. The beginning of the persecution by the Jewish religionists
a. The arrest and inquiry by the Sanhedrin
b. Peter's testimony
c. The Sanhedrin's prohibition
d. Peter and John's reply
e. The Sanhedrin's release
f. The church's praise and prayer
6. The continuation of the church life
a. The positive scene
b. The negative scene
7. The signs and wonders done through the apostles
8. The continuation of the persecution by the Jewish religionists
a. The Sanhedrin's arrest of the apostles and the Lord's rescue
b. The apostles' testimony
c. The Sanhedrin's prohibition and release
d. The apostles' rejoicing and faithfulness
9. The appointment of seven deacons
10. The growth of the word and the multiplication of the disciples
11. The increase of the persecution by the Jewish religionists
a. The martyrdom of Stephen
1) Opposed and arrested
2) Testifying
3) Killed
b. The devastation of the church in Jerusalem
12. The preaching by Philip
a. In Samaria
1) Proclaiming Christ and the kingdom of God
2) Confirmed by the apostles
b. To an Ethiopian
c. Unto Caesarea
13. The conversion of Saul
a. Appeared to by the Lord
b. Confirmed through Ananias
c. Beginning to preach
14. The building up and multiplication of the church
15. The spreading of Peter's ministry
a. To Lydda
b. To Joppa
16. The spreading to the Gentiles
a. Cornelius's vision
b. Peter's vision
c. Peter's visit
d. Peter's message
e. The Gentile believers' baptism in the Holy Spirit
f. The Gentile believers' water baptism
g. The recognition by the apostles and the brothers in Judea
17. The spreading to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch
18. The communication between the church in Antioch and the saints in Judea
19. The persecution by the Roman politician
a. The mistreatment of some believers and the martyrdom of James
b. The arrest of Peter
1) Guarded in prison
2) Rescued by the Lord
c. The fate of the persecutors
20. The growth and multiplication of the word
B. In the Gentile lands through the ministry of Paul's company
1. The initiation
2. Set apart and sent by the Holy Spirit
3. The first journey
a. To Paphos of Cyprus
b. To Pisidian Antioch
1) Preaching the crucified and resurrected Christ as the Savior
2) Rejected by the Jews
c. To Iconium
d. To Lystra and Derbe of Lycaonia
e. Establishing the disciples and appointing elders on the way back
f. Back to Antioch, ending the first journey
4. The trouble concerning circumcision
a. A conference of the apostles and elders held in Jerusalem
b. The solution
5. The problem of Barnabas
6. The second journey
a. To Syria and Cilicia
b. To Derbe and Lystra
c. To Philippi of Macedonia
1) The vision of a Macedonian
2) The preaching and its fruits
3) The imprisonment and the release
d. To Thessalonica
e. To Berea
f. To Athens
1) Sent by the brothers
2) Reasoning with the Jews and confronting the Gentile philosophers
3) Preaching on the Areopagus
g. To Corinth
1) Meeting Aquila and Priscilla
2) Preaching to the Jews and encountering their opposition
h. To Ephesus
i. Back to Antioch, ending the second journey
7. The third journey
a. To the country of Galatia and Phrygia
b. To Ephesus again
1) The ministry of Apollos
2) Filling up the deficiency in the ministry of Apollos
3) The ministry and its fruits — the Lord's word growing and prevailing
4) Purposing to go to Jerusalem and to Rome
5) The disturbance
a) The cause
b) The quieting
c. Through Macedonia and Greece to Troas
d. To Miletus, meeting with the elders of the church in Ephesus
e. To Tyre
f. To Ptolemais
g. To Caesarea
h. To Jerusalem, ending the third journey
8. The negative influence of Judaism
9. The ultimate persecution of the Jews
a. An uproar against Paul
1) Seized by the Jews
2) The intervention of the Roman commander
3) Defending himself before the rioting Jews
4) Bound by the Romans
5) Defending himself before the Sanhedrin
6) Encouraged by the Lord
7) The plot of the Jews
b. Transferred by the commander to the Roman governor Felix
1) The secrecy of the transfer
2) Accused by the Jews' advocate
3) Defending himself before Felix
4) Kept in the custody of the unjust and corrupt Roman politician
c. Left to Festus, the successor of Felix
1) The request of the leaders of the Jews rejected
2) Defending himself before Festus
3) Appealing to Caesar
4) Referred by Festus to King Agrippa
5) Defending himself before King Agrippa
6) King Agrippa's judgment
10. The fourth journey
a. To Fair Havens
b. The storm and Paul's prediction of safety
c. The ascendancy and wisdom of Paul in contrast to the baseness and folly of the sailors and soldiers
d. To the island of Malta
e. To Rome, ending the fourth journey
1) Through Syracuse to Rome
2) Contacting the Jewish leaders
3) Ministering in Rome
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