Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
INTRODUCTION
1. “Go . . . and Make Disciples” 6
SECTION 1—“You Have Filled Jerusalem With Your Teaching”
2. “You Will Be Witnesses of Me” 14
3. “Filled With Holy Spirit” 21
4. “Uneducated and Ordinary Men” 28
5. “We Must Obey God as Ruler” 37
SECTION 2—“Great Persecution Arose Against the Congregation”
6. Stephen—“Full of Divine Favor and Power” 45
7. Declaring “the Good News About Jesus” 52
8. The Congregation “Entered Into a Period of Peace” 60
SECTION 3—“People of the Nations . . . Accepted the Word of God”
10. “The Word of Jehovah Went On Growing” 77
SECTION 4—“Sent Out by the Holy Spirit”
11. “Filled With Joy and Holy Spirit” 85
12. “Speaking With Boldness by the Authority of Jehovah” 93
SECTION 5—“The Apostles and the Elders Gathered Together”
13. “After Quite a Bit of Dissension” 101
14. “We Have Come to a Unanimous Decision” 108
SECTION 6—“Let Us Now Return and Visit the Brothers”
15. “Strengthening the Congregations” 117
16. “Step Over Into Macedonia” 125
17. “He Reasoned With Them From the Scriptures” 133
18. “Seek God, . . . and Really Find Him” 140
19. “Keep On Speaking and Do Not Keep Silent” 148
SECTION 7—“Teaching . . . Publicly and From House to House”
20. “Growing and Prevailing” Despite Opposition 157
21. “I Am Clean From the Blood of All Men” 165
22. “Let the Will of Jehovah Take Place” 173
SECTION 8—“Preaching the Kingdom of God . . . Without Hindrance”
26. “Not One of You Will Be Lost” 203
27. “Bearing Thorough Witness” 211