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Acts 1:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

The former treatiseb have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

Luke 1:1‑4• ¹Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
²Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
³It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
⁴That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. (Luke 1:1‑4)

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1-9: Christ, preparing his apostles to the beholding of his ascension, gathers them together unto the mount Olivet, commands them to expect in Jerusalem the sending down of the Holy Ghost, promises after a few days to send it, and ascends into heaven in their sight.

10-11: After his ascension they are warned by two angels to depart, and to set their minds upon his second coming.

12-26: They accordingly return, and, giving themselves to prayer, choose Matthias apostle in the place of Judas.

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Luke 1:24• ²⁴And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, (Luke 1:24)

O Theophilus.

Luke 1:3• ³It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, (Luke 1:3)

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Acts 2:22• ²²Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: (Acts 2:22)

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Matt. 4:23‑24• ²³And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
²⁴And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. (Matt. 4:23‑24)

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Matt. 11:5• ⁵The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. (Matt. 11:5)

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Luke 7:21‑23• ²¹And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
²²Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
²³And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. (Luke 7:21‑23)

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Luke 24:19• ¹⁹And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: (Luke 24:19)

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John 10:32‑38• ³²Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
³³The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
³⁴Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
³⁵If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
³⁶Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
³⁷If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
³⁸But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. (John 10:32‑38)

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John 18:19‑21• ¹⁹The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
²⁰Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
²¹Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said. (John 18:19‑21)

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1 Peter 2:21‑23• ²¹For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
²²Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
²³Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: (1 Peter 2:21‑23)

• Chapter 1 gives us that which is connected with the Lord’s resurrection; chapters 2-12, that work of the Holy Spirit of which Jerusalem and the Jews were the center, but which branches out into the free action of the Spirit of God, independent of, but not separated from, the twelve, and Jerusalem as the center; chapter 13 and the succeeding chapters, the work of Paul, flowing from a more distinct mission from Antioch, chapter 15 connecting the two in order to preserve unity in the whole course. (“THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES” by J.N. Darby)

• It would seem that Theophilus had either ceased to hold a governorship (or whatever other public position—of a magisterial kind the inspired historian implies by the title “most excellent": cf. Acts 23:26; 24:3; 26:25, with Luke 1:3), or had become so matured in faith and so spiritual as to value title as little as position. (“Acts 1:1-11” by W. Kelly)

• What is commonly though not correctly called “the Acts of the Apostles"; for it is rather the inspired narrative of the risen Lord working in the energy of the Holy Ghost sent down from on high and witnessing to Him there. (“Acts 1:1-11” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

W. Kelly Translation

The first account I composed, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and teach,