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Outline of Acts

Prologue (1:1–2)

A. Preparation for Pentecost (1:3–26)

1. Instructions Before the Ascension (1:3–8)

2. The Ascension (1:9–11)

3. After the Ascension (1:12–26)

B. Witness in Jerusalem (2:1–7:60)

1. The Day of Pentecost (2:1–47)

a. The Coming of the Spirit (2:1–13)

b. Peter’s Pentecostal Speech and the People’s Response (2:14–42)

c. The New Community (2:43–47)

2. Healing at the Temple and Its Consequences (3:1–4:31)

a. A Cripple Cured (3:1–10)

b. Peter’s Speech (3:11–26)

c. Evangelism Proscribed by the Sanhedrin (4:1–22)

d. The Believers Respond with Prayer (4:23–31)

3. Radical Community (4:32–5:11)

a. Radical Sharing (4:32–35)

b. Radical Generosity (4:36–37)

c. Radical Discipline (5:1–11)

4. The Apostles Before the Sanhedrin (5:12–42)

a. Continuing Power (5:12–16)

b. Arrest, Trial, and Beating (5:17–40)

c. After the Beating (5:41–42)

5. The Appointing of the Seven (6:1–7)

6. The Ministry and Martyrdom of Stephen (6:8–7:60)

a. Stephen’s Ministry (6:8–10)

b. Accusations Against Stephen (6:11–15)

c. Stephen’s Speech (7:1–53)

d. Stephen’s Death (7:54–60)

C. Witness in Judea and Samaria and the Beginnings of Gentile Evangelism (8:1–11:18)

1. The Church Is Scattered (8:1–4)

2. Philip’s Ministry (8:5–40)

a. Public Ministry in Samaria (8:5–25)

b. Personal Ministry with the Ethiopian (8:26–40)

3. Saul’s Conversion and Call (9:1–31)

a. The Damascus Road Experience (9:1–9)

b. Ananias’s Ministry to Saul (9:10–19a)

c. Early Attempts at Ministry (9:19b–25)

d. Finally to Jerusalem (9:26–30)

e. A Church at Peace (9:31)

4. Miracles of Peter (9:32–45)

5. The Story of Cornelius (10:1–11:18)

a. Cornelius’s Vision (10:1–8)

b. Peter’s Vision (10:9–16)

c. Peter Meets the Messengers (10:17–23a)

d. Peter and Cornelius Meet (10:23b–33)

e. Peter’s Speech (10:34–43)

f. Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit (10:44–48)

g. The Jewish Christians Approve (11:1–18)

D. Witness to the Ends of the Earth (11:19–28:31)

1. The Church in Antioch Established (11:19–30)

a. Gentiles Converted (11:19–21)

b. Encouragement from Barnabas (11:22–26)

c. A Gift to Jerusalem (11:27–30)

2. A Parenthesis on Judean Christianity (12:1–25)

a. James Martyred (12:1–2)

b. Peter Imprisoned and Miraculously Freed (12:3–19)

c. Herod’s Death (12:20–25)

3. The First Missionary Journey (12:26–14:28)

a. A Missionary Team Is Sent Out (12:26–13:3)

b. A Proconsul Converted in Cyprus (13:4–12)

c. Ministry to Jews and Gentiles in Pisidian Antioch (13:13–52)

d. Ministry in Iconium (14:1–7)

e. Rejection and Reception in Lystra and Derbe (14:8–21a)

f. Return Visits to Churches and Antioch (14:21b–28)

4. The Jerusalem Council (15:1–35)

a. Paul and Barnabas Go to Jerusalem (15:1–4)

b. Settling the Issue of Salvation and the Gentiles (15:5–20)

c. Fellowship Between Jewish and Gentile Christians (15:21–35)

5. The Second Missionary Journey (15:36–18:22)

a. The Team Breaks Up (15:36–40)

b. The Macedonian Call (16:1–10)

c. Ministry and Imprisonment in Philippi (16:11–40)

d. Ministry and a Riot in Thessalonica (17:1–9)

e. Ministry Among the Noble Bereans (17:10–15)

f. Ministry Among Jews and Intellectuals in Athens (17:16–34)

g. Ministry and a Legal Victory in Corinthians (18:1–17)

h. Itinerating En Route to Antioch (18:18–22)

6. The Third Missionary Journey (18:23–21:16)

a. Ministry in Galatia and Phrygia (18:23)

b. Insertion: The Completion of Apollos (18:24–28)

c. The Completion of Twelve Ephesians (19:1–7)

d. Apologetic and Power Ministry in Ephesus (19:8–22)

e. The Riot in Ephesus (19:23–41)

f. Encouraging the Churches in Macedonia, Greece, and Troas (20:1–16)

g. Encouraging the Ephesian Elders in Miletus (20:17–38)

h. In Tyre and Caesarea (21:1–16)

7. Paul in Jerusalem (21:17–23:11)

a. Paul Meets the Jerusalem Christians (21:17–26)

b. Paul Is Arrested (21:27–36)

c. Paul Speaks to the Mob (21:37–22:21)

d. Paul Uses His Roman Citizenship (22:22–29)

e. Paul Before the Sanhedrin (22:30–23:11)

8. Paul in Caesarea (23:12–26:32)

a. Paul Moved to Caesarea (23:12–35)

b. Paul Before Felix (24:1–27)

c. Paul Appeals to Caesar (25:1–12)

d. Paul Before Agrippa (25:13–26:32)

9. The Journey to Rome (27:1–28:15)

a. The Journey Begins (27:1–12)

b. The Storm (27:13–26)

c. The Shipwreck (27:27–44)

d. Ministering in Malta (28:1–10)

e. Rome at Last (28:11–15)

10. Ministering in Rome (28:16–31)

a. A Rented Home in Rome (28:16)

b. Paul and the Jews in Rome (28:17–28)

c. Bold Preaching and Teaching (28:30–31)