Acts

The risen Christ ascends and pours out his Spirit at Pentecost, forming a new community that prays, shares, heals, and proclaims — even under threat.

Persecution scatters the Jerusalem believers outward, and through Philip's preaching, Saul's dramatic conversion, and the Spirit's fall on Cornelius, the gospel crosses every boundary the ancient world had erected.

Commissioned from Antioch, Paul and his companions carry the gospel across the Roman world — through synagogues, marketplaces, and philosophical halls — while the Jerusalem Council settles the terms on which Gentiles enter the people of God.

Paul's arrest in Jerusalem sets him on a long journey through defense speeches, shipwreck, and chains to Rome, where the book ends with the gospel proclaimed openly and without hindrance — the word that seals the entire narrative.