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Acts 21
[Bible]Acts 21 is the chapter in which Paul, having completed his third missionary journey, goes up to Jerusalem despite warnings, meets with James and the elders, and is arrested by a Roman chief captain after a riot breaks out in the temple.
Acts 25
[Bible]Acts 25 is the chapter in which the new governor, Festus, tries Paul, who is imprisoned at Caesarea. It covers the events from Paul's appeal to Caesar (the Roman emperor) to Festus's presentation of Paul before King Agrippa.
Gospel of Nicodemus
[Bible]The Gospel of Nicodemus is an ancient Christian text that recounts the trial, death, and resurrection of Jesus and his descent into Hades. Also known as the Acts of Pilate, it is a work of New Testament apocrypha and is not part of the biblical canon.
Athens
[Bible]Athens is a city in the Attica region of Greece that still bears the same name today. During his second missionary journey, the apostle Paul stayed there and preached on the Areopagus, as recorded in Acts 17.
Hebraic Jews
[Bible]Hebraic Jews, called "the Hebrews" in Acts 6:1, were Jewish believers in the early Jerusalem church who were distinguished from the Hellenistic Jews. They are generally understood to have come mainly from Palestine and to have spoken Aramaic or Hebrew.
Antipatris
[Bible]Antipatris is a town mentioned in Acts 23 where Roman troops stopped while escorting Paul overnight from Jerusalem to Caesarea. Herod the Great named it in honor of his father, Antipater.
Symbolic Actions of the Prophets
[Bible]The symbolic actions of the prophets are acts by which Old Testament prophets conveyed God's message visibly, not only in words but through gestures, objects, and their own lives.
Prophetic Symbolic Actions
[Bible]"Prophetic symbolic action" is a descriptive term for actions by which the Old Testament prophets made God's message visible through gestures, objects, and their own lives, alongside their spoken words.
Theudas
[People]Theudas is a figure whom Gamaliel cited as an example in his speech before the Sanhedrin in Acts 5. He is said to have presented himself as someone of great importance and to have gathered about four hundred followers, but he was slain and his followers were scattered.
Ananias and Sapphira
[People]Ananias and Sapphira were a married couple in the early church at Jerusalem whose story is told in Acts 5. After selling a piece of land, they kept back part of the price while pretending to have given all of it. Rebuked by Peter, they died one after the other.
Seven Deacons
[Bible]The Seven Deacons were seven men chosen by the early church in Jerusalem to ensure the fair distribution of relief to those in need. They included Stephen and Philip, and their appointment is commonly regarded as the origin of the office of deacon.
Tertullus
[People]Tertullus was the courtroom orator who, in Acts 24, accused Paul before the Roman governor Felix on behalf of the high priest Ananias and the elders.
Herod Agrippa I
[People]Herod Agrippa I was a grandson of Herod the Great and a king who ruled Judea in the first half of the first century. In Acts 12 he is called "Herod the king" and appears as the ruler who killed James the son of Zebedee and imprisoned Peter.
Rhoda
[People]Rhoda was a young girl in Jerusalem who appears in Acts 12. When Peter, newly released from prison, knocked at the gate of the house of Mary the mother of Mark, Rhoda recognized his voice and told those gathered inside.
Sect of the Nazarenes
[Bible]The "sect of the Nazarenes" is the expression the advocate Tertullus used in Acts 24 for the followers of Jesus when he brought charges against Paul. The Greek word behind "sect" here is closer to "sect" or "faction" than to "heresy" in the modern doctrinal sense.
Sapphira
[People]Sapphira was a member of the early church in Jerusalem who appears in Acts 5. With her husband Ananias, she kept back part of the price of a piece of land while pretending that they had given it all, and she died in the presence of Peter.
Alexander (Jew of Ephesus)
[People]Alexander was a Jew whom the Jews of Ephesus put forward before the crowd during the riot described in Acts 19. He motioned with his hand to make a defense, but when the crowd recognized him as a Jew, they cried out to Artemis for about two hours, and he was unable to speak.
Neapolis
[Bible]Neapolis was a port city on the eastern coast of Macedonia. It was the first place Paul and his companions reached after sailing from Troas, before they went on to Philippi (Acts 16:11).
Works of the Flesh
[Bible]The works of the flesh are a catalog of sins that the apostle Paul lists in Galatians 5:19–21 in contrast to the fruit of the Spirit. The list includes sexual immorality, idolatry, strife, and drunkenness, among other items, and closes with "and such like." The New Korean Revised Version renders it as fifteen items.
Apollos
[People]Apollos was a first-century Christian teacher who appears in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament. A Jew from Alexandria, he was eloquent and well versed in the Scriptures, and he ministered in Ephesus and Corinth.