The Events of the Christian Church, as Set Forth in the Acts of the Apostles: Before the Gospel was Preached to the Gentiles, Reviewed in a Series of Expository Lectures

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S.W. Partridge, 1880 - Bible - 478 pages

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Page 132 - But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be 'granted unto you; and killed the Prince of Life, whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses...
Page 199 - And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, by stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
Page 456 - And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Page 372 - But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Page 8 - Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the Apostles whom He had chosen, to whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, 'and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God...
Page 392 - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page 360 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John : who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them : only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 5 - Behold my servant whom I uphold— mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth! I have put my spirit upon him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Page 211 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own ; but they had all things common.
Page 59 - And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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