Acts
Acts in full in the Berean Standard Bible (28 chapters): read it chapter by chapter and compare translations.
Chapters of Acts
- 1In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,
- 2PentecostWhen the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
- 3One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
- 4While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the…
- 5Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.
- 6In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble…
- 7Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
- 8And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the…
- 9The conversion of PaulMeanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached…
- 10At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
- 11The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
- 12About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.
- 13Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of…
- 14At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great…
- 15Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to…
- 16Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish…
- 17When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
- 18After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
- 19While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples
- 20When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples. And after encouraging them, he said goodbye to them…
- 21After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and…
- 22“Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.”
- 23Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good…
- 24Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who…
- 25Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
- 26Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began…
- 27When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a…
- 28Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.