Tag: jerusalem

  • Arrested AND Released

    So they arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out.. Acts of the Apostles 5:18-19a – CSB ACTS of Arrests witnessed by the Apostles Politically motivated religious leaders of Jerusalem now begin to develop a…

    open jail door "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."
  • Preaching from Herod’s Porch

    You’ve never heard it called ‘HEROD’S PORCH,’ but certainly that must have been the inferred imagery when Herod the Great named it, ‘Solomon’s Porch,’ (porticum Salomonis, in the Latin of Herod’s Roman friends). Now while Kefa and Yochanan were being held by him, all the people ran together to them at the Portico which is…

    drawing of Herod's Temple
  • Building a New Synagogue of Simon – שִׁמְעוֹן

    (I know you’re thinking ‘church’ and not ‘synagogue’ and Christians always think like a gentile only calling the Apostle Peter, but today we need to look at ACTS through first century eyes, having ears to hear Simon Peter preach the Person of Christ Jesus who he knew and loved personally.) Today’s look at ACTS OF…

    pictured Hurva Synagoge in Jerusalem ~1948 verse from Acts 2:5 Hebrew Names Version