Structure
The Preparation for the Christian Mission
• (Acts 1 – 2:13)
The Mission In Jerusalem
• (Acts 2:14 – 8:3)
The Mission in Judeo and Samaria
• (Acts 8:4 – 9:43)
The Inauguration of the Gentile Mission
• (Acts 10 – 15:35)
The Mission of Paul to the Ends of the Earth
• (Acts 15:36 – 28:31)
Preparation of the Apostles
• Jesus Ascends to Heaven
• Apostles replace Judas with
Matthias
• Judas’ death
• Pentecost
Jesus-Followers in Community
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Worship in the temple
Break Bread
Baptism
Miraculous Signs
Selling of Possessions
Enemies of Jesus Return
• High Priests –
Caiaphas & Annas
• Sadducees
• Trial of Peter and John
• Told to not teach in
Jesus’ name
Arrest and Trial
• Jesus Followers arrested
• Angel frees them
• Re-Arrested and
questioned
• Gamaliel’s testimony
• Scourged
Formalized Leadership
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Apostles choose helpers
Early Deacons
Stephen
Stoning of Stephen
Saul
Saul Persecutes the Church
• Apostles travel throughout
Israel
• Jerusalem under siege from
Saul
• New Communities
connected to Apostles
Samaria
• Jews and Samaritans
despised each other
• Philip arrives and
baptizes
• Requires Peter for the
Holy Spirit to come
• Magician named Simon
Magnus
• Tries to buy Holy Spirit
Saul in Damascus
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Saul blinded on the road
Brought to Damascus
Blind for 3 days
Baptized
Joins Jewish community
in Damascus
• Forced to leave
• Departs for Jerusalem
Back in Jerusalem
• Saul arrives in Jerusalem
• Meets the Apostles
• Becomes enemies with
Greeks
• Sent off to Caesarea and
Tarsus
Progress Continues
• Communities throughout
Galilee, Samaria, and Judea
• Goes back to Peter
• Continuing to show
miraculous signs
• Raises Dorcas from the
dead
Peter and Cornelius: Mission brought
to the Gentiles
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Cornelius, Roman Centurion
Cornelius’ Vision
Peter’s vision
God does not make unclean
things
• Gentiles receive the Holy Spirit
The Mission spreading Internationally
• followers scattered after
Stephen’s stoning
• Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch
• Spread to Greeks
• Barnabas and Saul travel to
Antioch
• First group to call themselves
Christians
Herod Antipas
• Kills James
• Arrests Peter
• Peter freed again by an
Angel
• Herod struck down by an
Angel of the Lord
Leadership
• Barnabas and Saul
commissioned
• Directed by the Holy Spirit
• Travel from Antioch to
Cyprus, Pisidia, Iconium,
Lystra, and Derbe
• Appoint Elders
Council of Jerusalem
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First major debate
49 CE
Jewish Laws?
Apostles meet in Jerusalem
to settle question
• Sent letters clarifying the
faith to the community in
Antioch
Paul’s Arrest
• Arrested in Jerusalem
• Mob mentality
• Illegal to condemn a
Roman without trial
• Sent to Governor Felix
Paul on Trial
• Accused by High Priests
• Paul kept in prison for 2
years
• New Governor, Festus
• Appeal to Emperor
Rome
• Shipwrecked in Malta
• Appeals to Rome’s Jewish
community
• Two years preaching in Rome
• Bible doesn’t record Paul or
Peter’s death
• Paul beheaded under Emperor Nero
• Peter crucified upside down