Acts 1:11
Acts 2:38
Acts 3:19
Acts 4:12
Acts 17:11
Acts 17:30-31
Acts 20:35
Acts 24:25
Acts 26:29
Try to learn one verse each week for a month.
I. Author - Luke
A. a physician
1.Col. 4:14
B.perhaps a Gentile (if so, only non-Jewish New Test. writer)
1. Col. 4:11-14
C. historian
1. Lk. 1:1-4
2. accuracy of account
a. Acts 17:6 (His use of "politarchs" was questioned until discovery of inscription on Galerian Arch)
b. Acts 19:35 (city clerk or "grammateus")
D. mentioned in various epistles of Paul
1. Col. 4:14
2. 2 Tim. 4:11
3. Philemon 24
E. Paul's traveling companion ("we" passages of Acts)
1. Acts 16:10-17
2. Acts 20:5-15
3. Acts 21:1-18
4. Acts 27:1 - 28:16
F. stood with Paul to the end
1. 2 Tim. 4:11
II. Book
A. written to Theophilus - "lover of God"
1. Acts 1:1-2 (Lk. 1:1-4)
B. covers beginning of church
1. focuses mainly on Peter in chapters 1-12
2. focuses mainly on Paul in chapters 13-28
C. covers from the ascension (AD 30) to end of 2nd year of Paul's imprisonment in Rome (AD 61-63)
III. Message
A. God does not overlook ignorance
1. Acts 17:30-31
B. there is no other name by which we can be saved
1. Acts 4:8-12
C. Jesus is coming back
1. Acts 1:11
D. we must be on the alert
1. Acts 20:28-32
E. we do not have as much time as we think
1. Acts 24:25