Study Desk

This is why I came at once when you sent for me: but now let me ask you, for what reason have you sent for me?

At that very time I sent for you, and you have done well to come. Behold we are all here present before you, and we wish to hear everything commanded thee from God.

For God sent the word to the children of Israel, preaching peace and tranquility by Jesus Christ: he is the LORD of all.

Not to all the people, but to us who have been chosen by God to be his witnesses, for we did eat and drink with him after his resurrection from the dead.

For they heard them speak with divers tongues, and magnify God.

And I said, Far be it, my Lord: for never has anything defiled and unclean entered my mouth.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and many people were added to our LORD.

Then Bar''na-bas departed to Tar''sus, to seek for Saul.

And when he had found him, he brought him to An''ti-och. And for the whole year they assembled together in the church, and taught a great many people. The disciples were called Christians first at An''ti-och and from that time on.

Then the disciples, each one according to his ability, determined to set aside for relief to the brethren who dwelt in Ju-d''a.

And while Simon Peter was kept in the prison, continual prayer was offered for him to God by the church.

But he motioned to them with his hand to keep quiet; then he entered and related to them how the LORD had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Tell these things to James, and to our brethren. And he went out, and departed for another place.

Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, but they assembled together and came to him, and they appealed to Blas''tus, the king''s chamberlain, and asked him that they might have peace, because their country was dependent upon the kingdom of Herod for food supplies.

As they fasted and prayed to God, the Holy Spirit said to them, Appoint for me Saul and Bar''na-bas for the work to which I have called them.

Who was very close friend to a wise man, the proconsul whose name was Ser''gi-us Pau''lus, who called for Saul and Bar''na-bas, and desired to hear from them the word of God.

And now the hand of the LORD is against you, and you shall be blind, and shall not see the sun for a time. And in that very hour there fell on him a mist and darkness; and he went about seeking some one to lead him by the hand.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the elders of the synagogue sent to them, saying, O men and brethren, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, speak.

And he fed them in the wilderness for forty years.

And he destroyed seven nations in the land of Ca''naan, and he gave them their land for an inheritance.

And for a period of four hundred and fifty years he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.