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Judas Iscariot
[People]Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ who handed Jesus over to the chief priests for thirty pieces of silver. His actions and death are recorded in the Gospels and the Book of Acts.
Joel 2:32
[Bible Verses]Joel 2:32 promises that on the day of the LORD "whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered." Quoted in Peter's Pentecost sermon (Acts 2:21) and in Romans 10:13, it is frequently cited as a text on the universal offer of salvation and on the lordship of Jesus.
Romans 14:5–6
[Bible Verses]A passage in which the apostle Paul, addressing the question of observing days in the church at Rome, urges believers to respect one another's convictions, since each acts unto the Lord. It is frequently cited in discussions of Sabbath and Lord's Day observance and of freedom of conscience in nonessential matters.
Luke 7:22
[Bible Verses]Luke 7:22 is the verse in which Jesus answers the imprisoned John the Baptist's question of whether he is "he that should come" by pointing to acts of healing and to the preaching of the gospel, works that recall the prophecies of Isaiah. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of Jesus' messiahship, divine healing, and the gospel preached to the poor.
Thaddaeus
[People]Thaddaeus was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark call him "Thaddaeus," while the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts record him as "Judas the son of James." The two names are commonly understood to refer to the same person.
John 20:22
[Bible Verses]John 20:22 records the risen Jesus breathing on His disciples and saying, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." The verse is frequently discussed in pneumatology and ecclesiology, both for its relationship to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 2 and for the authority to forgive sins that follows it.
Ruler of the Synagogue
[Bible]The ruler of the synagogue was the official who led worship and assemblies in Jewish synagogues during the New Testament period. Jairus in the Gospels and Crispus and Sosthenes in the Acts of the Apostles are identified as rulers of the synagogue.
Gaza
[Bible]Gaza was a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast in southwestern Canaan. It appears in the Samson narrative in Judges and in Acts 8, where Philip met the Ethiopian eunuch on "the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza."
Proselytes to Judaism
[Bible]A proselyte to Judaism was a person born a Gentile who came to believe in the God of Israel and formally entered Judaism. The term appears four times in the New Testament, in Matthew and Acts.
Vision
[Bible]A vision is a means by which God makes something known to a person by showing scenes or meanings that cannot be perceived with ordinary sight. Visions appear frequently in the Old Testament prophetic books and in the Book of Acts.
Cilicia
[Bible]Cilicia was a region on the Mediterranean coast of southeastern Asia Minor. Tarsus, the hometown of the apostle Paul, was located there, and the region is mentioned in Acts and Galatians.
Claudius
[People]Claudius was a Roman emperor of the mid-first century AD. He is named twice in the book of Acts, which records a famine during his reign and his order expelling the Jews from Rome.
Gaius
[People]Gaius is the name of one or more first-century Christians mentioned in the New Testament. People bearing this name appear in Acts, the Pauline Epistles, and 3 John, and interpreters disagree about how many different individuals are meant.
Sign
[Bible]A sign is a mark that reveals God's will or shows in advance what is to come. In the Old Testament the term refers to signs of the covenant and to the symbolic acts of the prophets; in the New Testament it extends to the signs performed by Jesus and to the signs of the end times.
Silvanus
[People]Silvanus was a first-century coworker who preached the gospel alongside the apostle Paul. He is named in the Pauline Epistles and in 1 Peter and is generally identified with the Silas of the Book of Acts.
Antonia Fortress
[Bible]The Antonia Fortress was a stronghold built by Herod the Great at the northwest corner of the Temple in Jerusalem. It is generally identified with the "castle" into which the Roman chief captain brought Paul in Acts 21–23.
Works-Righteousness
[Doctrine & Theology]Works-righteousness is the attitude or belief that a person can obtain salvation or God's grace through his or her own good deeds and religious acts. The term is used mainly in Protestantism, usually in a critical sense.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
[People]Pseudo-Dionysius was an anonymous Christian writer thought to have been active in the late fifth or early sixth century. He wrote under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, who is mentioned in the Book of Acts. His negative theology and his account of the angelic hierarchy exerted a major influence on medieval theology.
Oscar Cullmann
[People]Oscar Cullmann (1902–1999) was a Lutheran New Testament scholar from Alsace, France. He is widely known for his theology of "salvation history" (Heilsgeschichte), which holds that God's saving acts unfold in stages within history, and for his "already and not yet" eschatology.
Perea
[Bible]Perea was the name used in the New Testament era for the region east of the Jordan River. It was ruled by Herod Antipas, and the Gospels refer to it as "beyond the Jordan." It is distinct from Berea in the book of Acts.