Acts 11:1-3
PETER'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE JUDAIZING BRETHREN. The attack:... [ Continue Reading ]
PETER'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE JUDAIZING BRETHREN. The attack:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE APOSTLES AND BRETHREN THAT WERE IN JUDEA HEARD THAT THE GENTILES HAD ALSO RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN PETER WAS COME UP TO JERUSALEM, THEY THAT WERE OF THE CIRCUMCISION CONTENDED WITH HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, THOU WENTEST INTO MEN UNCIRCUMCISED, AND DIDST EAT WITH THEM. From the entire account of Luke in the Acts it is evident that the inspiration of the apostles pertained to their office of teaching only, and that they had no unusual powers of penetration and enlightenment otherwise. Thus the ap... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PETER REHEARSED THE MATTER FROM THE BEGINNING, AND EXPOUNDED IT BY ORDER UNTO THEM, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
The rehearsal of Peter:... [ Continue Reading ]
I WAS IN THE CITY OF JOPPA PRAYING; AND IN A TRANCE I SAW A VISION, A CERTAIN VESSEL DESCEND AS IT HAD BEEN A GREAT SHEET, LET DOWN FROM HEAVEN BY FOUR CORNERS; AND IT CAME EVEN TO ME;... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON THE WHICH WHEN I HAD FASTENED MINE EYES, I CONSIDERED, AND SAW FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS OF THE EARTH, AND WILD BEASTS, AND CREEPING THINGS, AND FOWLS OF THE AIR.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HEARD A VOICE SAYING UNTO ME, ARISE, PETER, SLAY AND EAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I SAID, NOT SO, LORD; FOR NOTHING COMMON OR UNCLEAN HATH AT ANY TIME ENTERED INTO MY MOUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE VOICE ANSWERED ME AGAIN FROM HEAVEN, WHAT GOD HATH CLEANSED, THAT CALL NOT THOU COMMON.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS WAS DONE THREE TIMES; AND ALL WERE DRAWN UP AGAIN IN TO HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, IMMEDIATELY THERE WERE THREE MEN ALREADY COME UNTO THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS, SENT FROM CAESAREA UNTO ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SPIRIT BADE ME GO WITH THEM, NOTHING DOUBTING. MOREOVER, THESE SIX BRETHREN ACCOMPANIED ME, AND WE ENTERED IN TO THE MAN'S HOUSE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHOWED US HOW HE HAD SEEN AN ANGEL IN HIS HOUSE, WHICH STOOD AND SAID UNTO HIM, SEND MEN TO JOPPA, AND CALL FOR SIMON, WHOSE SURNAME IS PETER,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO SHALL TELL THEE WORDS WHEREBY THOU AND ALL THY HOUSE SHALL BE SAVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS I BEGAN TO SPEAK, THE HOLY GHOST FELL ON THEM AS ON US AT THE BEGINNING. Instead of launching forth in cleverly worded arguments to defend his action, Peter believes it best to let the facts speak for themselves, for which reason he gives them in the form of a simple recital, presenting them... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of Peter:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN REMEMBERED I THE WORD OF THE LORD HOW THAT HE SAID, JOHN INDEED BAPTIZED WITH WATER, BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORASMUCH, THEN, AS GOD GAVE THEM THE LIKE GIFT AS HE DID UNTO US, WHO BELIEVED ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHAT WAS I THAT I COULD WITHSTAND GOD?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS, THEY HELD THEIR PEACE, AND GLORIFIED GOD, SAYING, THEN HATH GOD ALSO TO THE GENTILES GRANTED REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE. Peter himself, as he here reminds his critics, had had serious scruples about the entire matter; but the succession of events could not have been the resul... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THEY WHICH WERE SCATTERED ABROAD UPON THE PERSECUTION THAT AROSE ABOUT STEPHEN TRAVELED AS FAR AS PHENICE AND CYPRUS AND ANTIOCH, PREACHING THE WORD TO NONE BUT UNTO THE JEWS ONLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONGREGATION AT ANTIOCH. The founding of the congregation:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOME OF THEM WERE MEN OF CYPRUS AND CYRENE, WHICH, WHEN THEY WERE COME TO ANTIOCH, SPAKE UNTO THE GRECIANS, PREACHING THE LORD JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS WITH THEM; AND A GREAT NUMBER BELIEVED AND TURNED UNTO THE LORD. Luke here once more refers to the scattering of the disciples which followed the execution of Stephen, chap. 8:1. They were dispersed on account of the tribulation of the persecution which happened about St... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN TIDINGS OF THESE THINGS CAME UNTO THE EARS OF THE CHURCH WHICH WAS IN JERUSALEM; AND THEY SENT FORTH BARNABAS THAT HE SHOULD GO AS FAR AS ANTIOCH,... [ Continue Reading ]
Barnabas in Antioch and Tarsus:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO, WHEN HE CAME, AND HAD SEEN THE GRACE OF GOD, WAS GLAD, AND EXHORTED THEM ALL THAT WITH PURPOSE OF HEART THEY WOULD CLEAVE UNTO THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WAS A GOOD MAN, AND FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST AND OF FAITH; AND MUCH PEOPLE WAS ADDED UNTO THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN DEPARTED BARNABAS TO TARSUS FOR TO SEEK SAUL;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD FOUND HIM, HE BROUGHT HIM UNTO ANTIOCH. AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT A WHOLE YEAR THEY ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES WITH THE CHURCH, AND TAUGHT MUCH PEOPLE. AND THE DISCIPLES WERE CALLED CHRISTIANS FIRST IN ANTIOCH. Jerusalem, being the headquarters of the apostles, was still considered the capi... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THESE DAYS CAME PROPHETS ROM JERUSALEM UNTO ANTIOCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
Barnabas and Saul sent on a charitable mission:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE STOOD UP ONE OF THEM, NAMED AGABUS, AND SIGNIFIED BY THE SPIRIT THAT THERE SHOULD BE GREAT DEARTH THROUGHOUT ALL THE WORLD; WHICH CAME TO PASS IN THE DAYS OF CLAUDIUS CAESAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE DISCIPLES, EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, DETERMINED TO SEND RELIEF UNTO THE BRETHREN WHICH DWELT IN JUDEA;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH ALSO THEY DID, AND SENT IT TO THE ELDERS BY THE HANDS OF BARNABAS AND SAUL. "In these days," the days of the first love, when the fires of zeal for the Lord and of love for the brethren were still burning high, there were also extraordinary gifts of the Spirit to be found in the congregations.... [ Continue Reading ]