Study 2024-2025: Acts

The Book of Acts 

Overview
- Author:    Luke the Physician, travel companion of the apostle Paul
- What: Luke’s second account is addressed to a man named Theophilus, as was his gospel. Acts is centered on the account of the first body of believers in Jesus. It is essentially how the first church worshiped, prayed, and ministered to others with the addition of the opposition the church faced early on.
-When: 62 AD
-Where: Rome
-Why: Luke wanted certainty for what he had been taught. As confirmation, there was no opposing view of what he was taught.

Jesus Deity Claims/ Jesus OT ← → NT:
1:4-5 = unity with Father
1:7 = unity with Father
9:3-6 = who can talk from heaven except God alone?
9:10-16 = Jesus delivers message as God
10:13-15 = Jesus instructs Peter to kill and eat what would have been traditionally unclean according to OT law, but Jesus says God made it clean… He said it
11:7-10 = see 10:13-15
18:10 = God speaks to humans in dreams/visions, and here Jesus himself is doing it, and stating He is with Paul
22:6-10 = see 9:3-6
23:11 = Jesus stood next to Paul, and could have only appeared
26:14-18 = Genesis 15:6 states Abraham’s faith in God was credited to him as righteousness… here Jesus is stating that people are sanctified by faith in Him.
The Trinity Shown:
1:2 = Holy Spirit promised by the Father and Jesus
1:4-5 = Father, Son, Holy Spirit
1:7-9 =  Father, Son, Holy Spirit
1:16 = Holy Spirit spoke to prophets, same way Jesus speaks to Paul in Acts
2:17-21 = LORD, Spirit, verse 21 anyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved applied to Jesus throughout NT
2:31-33 = Son (Messiah) Father, Holy Spirit
4:27-31 = interaction of Jesus and Holy Spirit
5:31-32 = Savior (Jesus), Holy Spirit, God (Father) contextually
7:55-56 = distinctions between Holy Spirit, God (Father), and Jesus (Son of Man)
8:16-17 = Holy Spirit and Jesus unity
9:17-18 = unity between Holy Spirit and Jesus
9:20 = Jesus as Son of God
13:2 = the Lord and Holy Spirit
13:33 = see Psalm 2:7
15:28 = Holy Spirit in place of Jesus, exactly what Jesus said about there being Another in John 14:16
16:7 = Spirit of Jesus
20:22-24 = unity between Holy Spirit, Jesus and God (Father)
20:28 = Holy Spirit, God (Jesus)
21:11 = Holy Spirit
21:13-14 = Jesus as Lord, and the Lord’s will be done (who else’s but God’s)
22:14-16 = distinction between God and the Righteous One
22:18 = God (Jesus) gives Paul a trance
23:11 =  God (Jesus) gives Paul a message

Key Events:
1:14, 2:1-12, 4:32-37, (5), 5:20, 8:5-8, 8:9-10, 10:25-26, 11:26, 14:3, 15:11, 15:28, 16:37

Major (not all) Prophecies Fulfilled of the Messiah(Jesus):
1:11 = Psalm 79:9
2:25-28 = Psalm 16:8-11
2:31-32 = Psalm 22:22
2:32-36 = Psalm 80:17, Psalm 110:1
3:18 = Psalm 22:14-15
3:22-23 = Deuteronomy 18:15, 18:18, 18:19
3:25 = Genesis 22:18
4:11-12 = Psalm 118:22
4:25-26 = Psalm 2:1-2
5:31 = Psalm 80:17
7:37-38 = Deuteronomy 18:15
8:32-33 = Isaiah 53:7-8
10:39-43 = Psalm 118:17-18
11:18  = Isaiah 42:6
13:23-24 = Jeremiah 23:5-6
13:33-35 = Psalm 2:7, Psalm 16:10, Habakkuk 1:5
13:47 = Isaiah 49:6
14:15 = Isaiah 53:10
17:3-4 = Isaiah 53
17:7 = “King” = Genesis 14:18, 1 Samuel 2:10, Psalm 2:6, Zechariah 6:12-13
17:31 = Psalm 22:22-23
24:5 = Isaiah 11:1

Culture/Time:
2:41-47, 6:7, 7:42, 12:19-23, 15:1, 16:16-17, 17:16-23, 19:19, 19:23-41, 23:8, 26:5, 26:27, 28:3-6, 28:11

Relevant History + Science:
12:19, 21:37-39, 23:24-30, 24:27, 25:13-15

Notes

• 3:6 Peter had the ability to walk, a God-given ability and so he gives also to the man through God
• 9:2 the “Way”, the original name for Christianity… was considered a Jewish sect in and of itself based on faith in Jesus
• 9:34
•  12:12 John Mark
• 19:35 Artemis (a Greek goddess), spoken from the mouth of one who worships her, stated that the goddess fell from heaven… interesting, considering Satan fell from heaven like lightening, and his angels were also thrown onto the earth, verifying fallen angels are in fact worshipped.
• 27:14