Timeline: Acts of the Apostoles

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Resurrected Jesus (Act 1:8)

Jesus shows himself during 40 days and speaks about God’s Kingdom (1:3)
Jesus instructs the apostles to stay in Jerusalem and wait for the promised holy spirit (1:4, 5)
Jesus answers the apostles’ question about when the kingdom will be restored to Israel (1:6, 7)
Jesus commissions the apostles to be witnesses of him to the ends of the earth (1:8)

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Pentecost / 1st key - 3000 baptized

Acts 2:1-6

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witnessing in Jerusalem / Opposition -5000 baptized / (Ananias & Sapphira)/ Sanhedrin

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Persecution breaks our in Jerusalem

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Saul's conversion / Ananias

34

Stephen

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Period of peace begins

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Philip in Samaria/ Peter + John - 2nd key/ Ethiopian eunuch / Philip preaches to all cities up to Caesaria

Peter and John send to Samaria/ receive Holy Spirit

Period: 34 to 36

Paul preaches in Damascus

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Paul goes to Arabia

36

Paul visits Jerusalem

Acts 9:26-30 Barnabas led him to the apostles (Jacob)
Gal 1:18 - 15 Days with Peter

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Peter preaches on the coastal plain / Dorcas resurrected

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Cornelius - 3rd key

Period: 37 to 41

EMPEROR CALIGULA

Period: 37 to 44

Herod Agrippa I

Appointed by Emperor Caligula and later added more territory by Emperor Claudius
Violently persecuted the early Christian congregation, even had the apostle James executed and Peter imprisoned. Jehovah's angel struck him

41

Third Heaven Vision

41

MATTHEW (THE GOOD NEWS)

Period: 41 to 54

EMPEROR CLAUDIUS

4th emperor of Rome

44

James executed by Herod Agrippa with the sword

44

Angel sets Peter free from prison

44

Herod Agrippa I struck by an angel and dies

44

Named CHRISTIANS in Antioch

44

Agabus foretells famine

Period: 44 to 46

Barnabas and Paul preach to Greeks in Syrian Antioch

46

Famine strikes

46

Paul and Barnabas carry our relief work in Jerusalem/ took along Mark/John

Period: 47 to 48

Paul's first missionary tour

Antioch - Seleucia - Cyprus ( Salamis - Paphos) - Perga (Paul takes the lead - Marco leaves) - Antioch of Pisidia (synagogue- gentiles - threw them out) - Iconium ( city divided - plot to stone them) - Lystra (healed a lame man - mistaken for gods - Paul survives stoning) - Derbe # Return to Lystra-Iconium-Antioch back to Perga - Attalia form there they sail back to Antioch of Syria

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Paul resisted Peter face to face

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Governing Body on Circumcision

Acts 15
After quite a bit of dissension came to a unanimous decision

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Paul and Barnabas separate

( Paul with Silas - Barnabas with Marco/John preach in Cyprus )

Period: 49 to 52

Paul's second missionary tour

(Paul + Silas) Derbe - Lystra(+ Timothy) - Iconium - Antioch of Pisidia - Holy Spirit forbids going to Asia - trough Phrygia and Galatia down to Mysia - Troas (50 spring, vision of Macedonian man)(+Luke)
- Neapolis = Philippi ( at Gangites river / Lydia - Paul and Silas imprisoned/ jailer baptized) ( - Luke ) - Thessalonica - Beroea(- Silas, -Timothy)
- Athens - Corinth - Cenchreae - Ephesus - Caesarea - Jerusalem - Antioch of Syria

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