Tag: early church history
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🌸 Paul Before the Sanhedrin 🌻
Acts 22:30–23:35 🕊️ “Be of Good Cheer — You Must Also Bear Witness at Rome.” In this section, the story moves from chaos to courtroom. Paul, still under Roman protection, is brought before the Jewish council — the Sanhedrin — to explain himself. What begins as an attempt at justice quickly turns into division and fury.…
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✨ Acts 13:4–12 — Ministry in Cyprus: Confronting Elymas the Sorcerer ✨
đź“–Â Scripture Reading (NKJV) 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when they arrived in Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They also had John as their assistant. 6 Now when they had…
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✨ Herod’s Death and God’s Triumph ✨
đź“– Scripture Reading Acts 12:20-25 (NKJV) 20 Now Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king’s personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the king’s country. 21 So on…