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THE BOOK OF ACTS
OUTLINE
by Ray Shelton
I. Power of the Holy Spirit (1:1-2:47)
A. Introduction (1:1-2)
B. The Promise of the Power of the Holy Spirit (1:3-11)
Ascension
C. Waiting for the Power of the Holy Spirit (1:12-26)
D. Coming of the Power of the Holy Spirit (2:1-47)
Pentecost
II. Witnessing in Jerusalem (3:1-8:1)
A. Healing of Lame Man (3:1-26)
B. First Arrest (4:1-31)
C. Ananias & Sapphira (4:32-5:11)
D. Second Arrest (5:12-42)
E. First Deacons Chosen (6:1-7)
F. Stephen’s Witness & Death (6:8-8:1)
III. Witnessing in Judea & Samaria (8:2-12:25)
A. Persecution (8:2-3)
B. Philip in Samaria (8:4-25)
C. Philip & the Ethiopian (8:26-40)
D. Conversion of Saul (9:1-31)
E. Peter at Lydia & Joppa (9:32-43)
F. Peter’s Vision & Conversion of Cornelius (10:1-11:18)
G. First Gentile Church at Antioch (11:19-30)
H. Persecution by Herod (12:1-25)
IV. Witnessing unto the ends of the earth (13:1-28:31)
The Pauline Mission
A. Paul’s First Missionary Journey (13:1-14:26)
1. Setting Apart of Paul & Barnabas (13:1-3)
2. Cyprus (13:4-12)
3. Pisidian Antioch (13:13-52)
4. Iconium (14:1-7)
5. Lystra, Derbe and Return to Syrian Antioch (14:8-28)
B. Jerusalem Council (15:1-29)
C. Paul’s Second Missionary Journey (15:30-18:22)
1. Antioch to Troas (15:30-16:10)
2. Troas to Athens (16:11-17:15)
3. Athens (17:16-34)
4. Corinth and Return (18:1-22)
D. Paul’s Third Missionary Journey (18:23-21:16)
1. Ephesus (18:23-19:41)
2. Macedonia, Achaia & Return to Jerusalem (20:1-21:16)
E. Paul’s Journey to Rome (21:17-28:15)
1. In Jerusalem (21:17-23:35)
2. In Caesarea (24:1-26:32)
a. Before Felix (24:1-27)
b. Before Festus (25:1-22)
c. Before Agrippa (25:23-26:32)
3. The Sea Voyage (27:1-28:15)
4. In Rome (28:16-31)