To a lover of God, Theophilus: In my first book, I recounted the events of Jesus’ life—His actions, His teachings—

One day at three o’clock in the afternoon, a customary time for daily prayer, Peter and John walked to the temple.

During those days, the entire community of believers was deeply united in heart and soul to such an extent that they stopped claiming private ownership of their possessions. Instead, they held everything in common.

Once a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira fully cooperating, committed fraud. He sold some property

After leaving Philippi and passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica. There was a Jewish synagogue there.

This stirred their curiosity, because the favorite pastime of Athenians (including foreigners who had settled there) was conversation about new and unusual ideas. So they brought him to the rock outcropping known as the Areopagus, where Athens’ intellectuals regularly gathered for debate, and they invited him to speak. Athenians: May we understand this new teaching of yours? It is intriguingly unusual. We would love to know its meaning.