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The Word Spreads from Stephen’s Witness to Samaria’s Joy

Acts 6:1–8:40 follows the gospel beyond its first Jerusalem growth. The church appoints seven trusted servants to address neglected widows; Stephen’s Spirit-filled witness identifies Jesus as the Righteous One and leads to his death; persecution scatters believers; Philip proclaims the Messiah in Samaria and explains Isaiah to an Ethiopian official; and the word advances through suffering, service, Scripture, baptism, and joy.

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The Risen Jesus Makes Persecutors and Gentiles His People

Acts 9:1–12:25 moves the gospel through a series of surprising conversions and deliverances. The risen Jesus stops Saul on the Damascus road and sends Ananias to receive him; Peter heals and raises in Jesus’ name; Peter’s vision and Cornelius’s conversion show that God welcomes Gentiles; Antioch becomes a sending church; and even Herod’s violence cannot silence the word of God.

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The Spirit Sends the Gospel through Pisidia and Lycaonia

Acts 13:1–14:28 follows Barnabas and Saul from Antioch through Cyprus and southern Galatia on the first missionary journey. The Spirit sets them apart; Paul proclaims Jesus as David’s promised Savior and the risen One; Jewish and Gentile responses divide cities; a cripple walks in Lystra; Paul survives stoning; and the missionaries return to strengthen new disciples and report that God has opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

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Grace Guarded at Jerusalem, the Gospel Carried into Macedonia

Acts 15:1–16:40 joins a decisive gospel question to a new mission advance. The Jerusalem council rejects circumcision as a condition for Gentile salvation, confessing that Jews and Gentiles are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus. Paul then receives the Macedonian vision, sees Lydia believe, and sings in a Philippian prison as Christ’s word establishes churches across a new frontier.

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Jesus Proclaimed from Thessalonica to Ephesus

Acts 17:1–19:20 follows Paul through synagogue debate, public philosophy, house-church formation, and confrontation with idolatry. He reasons from Scripture that the Messiah had to suffer and rise, announces the risen Jesus to Athenians, receives the Lord’s encouragement in Corinth, and teaches Ephesians whose repentance becomes visible when costly magic practices are abandoned. The word of the Lord grows because Jesus is Lord over every city’s rival loyalty.

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Bound in the Spirit toward Jerusalem

Acts 19:21–21:16 follows Paul from the riot in Ephesus through Macedonia, Greece, Troas, Miletus, Tyre, and Caesarea as he travels toward Jerusalem. He is resolved in the Spirit despite repeated warnings of imprisonment, entrusts the Ephesian elders to God’s grace, raises Eutychus after a midnight fall, and accepts Agabus’s warning without abandoning the calling. The road mirrors costly obedience to the Lord Jesus, not a search for danger.

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The Arrested Apostle Bears Witness before Jerusalem

Acts 21:17–23:35 turns Paul’s arrest into public testimony. Rumors about his teaching produce a temple riot; Roman soldiers rescue him; Paul recounts his encounter with the risen Jesus and his commission to the Gentiles; he declares a resurrection hope before the council; and a plot to kill him is uncovered. Jesus’ promise that Paul will testify in Rome gives the section its center: hostile Jerusalem cannot cancel His mission.

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The Gospel Reaches Rome through Trials, Storm, and Witness

Acts 24:1–28:31 follows Paul through hearings before Felix, Festus, and Agrippa, a dangerous sea voyage, shipwreck on Malta, and guarded proclamation in Rome. He defends the resurrection hope and the Way without flattery or violence, appeals to Caesar, survives the storm through God’s promise, and teaches openly about God’s kingdom and the Lord Jesus. The book closes not with Paul’s verdict but with the unhindered advance of Christ’s message in the empire’s capital.

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The Gospel Reveals God’s Righteous Saving Power

Romans 1:1–17 introduces Paul, his apostolic calling, and the gospel he is eager to proclaim in Rome. This gospel concerns God’s Son, descended from David and designated Son of God in power through resurrection. It is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes because in it God reveals the righteousness He gives and requires, received by faith from beginning to end.

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God’s Righteous Judgment of Idolatry

Romans 1:18–32 explains why humanity needs the gospel announced in 1:16–17. People suppress what creation makes known about God, exchange His glory for images, and refuse gratitude and worship. God’s repeated act of giving them over displays judgment within history as disordered desires and social harm grow from idolatry.

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God’s Impartial Judgment and the Law

Romans 2 confronts the person who condemns others while remaining guilty before God. Divine kindness calls people to repentance, and judgment is impartial, reaching both Gentile conduct and Jewish reliance on the law. Covenant signs and knowledge are gifts, but they cannot substitute for obedience or the inward renewal God desires.

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Israel’s Advantage and the Universal Verdict

Romans 3:1–20 answers objections about Jewish advantage and God’s faithfulness before drawing the argument to its universal conclusion. Israel received God’s oracles, and human unfaithfulness cannot nullify God’s truth. Yet Scripture also testifies that every mouth is silenced: works of the law do not justify anyone but reveal sin and accountability before God.

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