ACTS 1-6: of Peter and the Twelve Apostles

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Acts of Peter (& the Twelve) Apostles

Luke reports in his second volume [ACTS] that Peter and the Apostles [ἀπόστολος Apostolos] have already spent time with JESUS, who IS alive and teaching them more for forty days after His resurrection. So they wait in Jerusalem as JESUS commanded them.

The RISEN Lord Jesus Christ now commands the Eleven Apostles:

Acts 1:4 WAIT in Jerusalem for the HOLY SPIRIT.

Of course no disciple of the Messiah Jesus would think to act against the LORD their God: the Father of our Lord and risen Son, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit.

Luke closes his Gospel and opens Acts emphasizing a new covenant between the the risen Jesus and the Holy Spirit – a new relationship not only with the Apostles, but also with many disciples who worship the Lord in Jerusalem.

Peter, John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. All these were continually devoting themselves with one mind to prayer..

Acts of the Apostles 1:13b-14a NASB

Witness of Mary, James & others

Luke also includes here [Acts 1, v.14b] ‘along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.’

This is Acts’ only mention of the mother of Jesus the messiah; however His half-brother James would later become leader of the Jerusalem church and host to the Apostles, who obediently have taken the Gospel into all the world.


Let’s talk of JESUS and His post-resurrection relationship with the Eleven Apostles (now minus Judas).

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ACTS 1 v.8 (of the HOLY SPIRIT) KJV But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you..

Acts 1:14 These all continued with one accord..
Acts 1:26 And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.
2:1 And when the day of Shavuos Orthodox Jewish Version is fulfilled, they were all together in one place.
2:11 But Peter, taking his stand with the other eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: ..
2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart .. 
2:40 .. he solemnly testified and kept on urging them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”
2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 3:1
Acts 3-11
Acts 4:23
Acts 4:29
Acts 5:1
Acts 5:12 Miracles of a rapidly growing Church led by the Apostles of Christ Jesus
Acts 5:34

Acts of a growing church 6:1
Acts 6:1-7

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