Category Archives: Acts

1 Certainly, O Theophilus, I composed the first discourse about everything that Jesus began to do and to teach, 2 instructing the Apostles, whom he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, even until the day on which he was taken up. 3 He also presented himself alive to them, after his Passion, appearing to them […]

1 And when the days of Pentecost were completed, they were all together in the same place. 2 And suddenly, there came a sound from heaven, like that of a wind approaching violently, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them separate tongues, as if of fire, […]

1 Now Peter and John went up to the temple at the ninth hour of prayer. 2 And a certain man, who was lame from his mother’s womb, was being carried in. They would lay him every day at the gate of the temple, which is called the Beautiful, so that he might request alms […]

1 But while they were speaking to the people, the priests and the magistrate of the temple and the Sadducees overwhelmed them, 2 being grieved that they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and they placed them under guard until the […]

1 But a certain man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a field, 2 and he was deceitful about the price of the field, with his wife’s consent. And bringing only part of it, he placed it at the feet of the Apostles. 3 But Peter said: “Ananias, why has Satan tempted your heart, […]

1 In those days, as the number of disciples was increasing, there occurred a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were treated with disdain in the daily ministration. 2 And so the twelve, calling together the multitude of the disciples, said: “It is not fair for us to leave behind the […]

1 Then the high priest said, “Are these things so?” 2 And Stephen said: “Noble brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he stayed in Haran. 3 And God said to him, ‘Depart from your country and from your kindred, and go into […]

1 Now in those days, there occurred a great persecution against the Church at Jerusalem. And they were all dispersed throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles. 2 But God-fearing men arranged for Stephen’s funeral, and they made a great mourning over him. 3 Then Saul was laying waste to the Church […]

1 Now Saul, still breathing threats and beatings against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, 2 and he petitioned him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that, if he found any men or women belonging to this Way, he could lead them as prisoners to Jerusalem. 3 And as […]

1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort which is called Italian, 2 a devout man, fearing God with all his house, giving many alms to the people, and praying to God continually. 3 This man saw in a vision clearly, at about the ninth hour of […]