Acts (KJV)
28 chapters · 1,007 verses. Choose a chapter to read it in the King James Version.
About the Book of Acts
Acts narrates the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome through the Spirit-empowered witness of the early church. It records the church's birth, mission, and growth across cultural and geographic boundaries.
- Genre
- History (narrative)
- Author
- Traditionally attributed to Luke
- First audience
- Theophilus and a broader readership
How to read it: Read as narrative history — it describes what the early church did; weigh description against the New Testament's commands before treating every episode as a pattern to copy.
It opens: “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,” (Acts 1:1)
Chapters
Key verses in Acts
The verses of Acts that the rest of Scripture cross-references most often.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Read Acts with a guide
- Acts in 28 Days28 days through the story of the early churchAll 28 days in Acts
- Pentecost: Power from on High7 days on the promised Holy Spirit6 of 7 days in Acts
- Paul: Grace That Transforms7 days with the persecutor turned apostle3 of 7 days in Acts
- The Big Story: Genesis to Revelation30 days on the one story the whole Bible tells3 of 30 days in Acts
- Conflict in the Church7 days on disagreement, peacemaking and unity2 of 7 days in Acts
- Discerning True & False Teaching7 days on testing teaching by God's word2 of 7 days in Acts