Acts
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Acts Highlights

  • Those who heard the apostles speaking in tongues thought they were drunk. 2:13

  • Peter says that their strange behavior (speaking in tongues, etc.) was to be expected since they were living in "the last days." 2:17

  • God will torture forever those who don't know the password to heaven. 4:12

  • Peter and God scare Ananias and his wife to death for not forking over all of the money that they made when selling their land. 5:1-10

  • Philip made "unclean spirits" scream as they left the bodies of the people they possessed. 8:7

  • Peter has a dream in which God show him "wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls." The voice (God's?) says, "Rise, Peter: kill and eat." 10:10-13

  • The "angel of the Lord" killed Herod by having him "eaten of worms" because "he gave not God the glory." 12:23

  • Paul and the Holy Ghost conspire together to make Elymas (the sorcerer) blind. 13:8-11

  • God chooses those who will believe [the right things], and only they will go to heaven. 13:48

  • Sick people were cured by touching the handkerchief or apron of Paul. And the evil spirits when out of them." 19:12

  • Evil spirits know Jesus and Paul. They also jump on people and strip them of their clothes. 19:15-16

  • The first Christian book burning occurs when Paul's converts at Ephesus burn 50,000 silver pieces worth of books. 19:19

  • Eutychus was the first casualty of many long boring sermons. 20:9

  • Paul has kind words for everyone. Here he says, "God will smite thee, thou whited wall." 23:3