Three times each year Jews journeyed to Jerusalem for feasts: Passover-Feast of Unleavened Bread, followed 50 days later by the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and the Feast of Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:16). Some Jewish traditions held that Moses received...

There was little difference between the final days of the apostle Paul and his first days as a follower of Christ. In both periods he was preaching the Gospel in Jewish synagogues, debating opponents of the faith, and generally stirring up trouble in the...

The resurrection of Christ is at the core of the Christian faith. Jesus appeared eleven different times between His resurrection and His ascension, beginning with his appearance to Mary Magdalene. His last appearance was to the disciples on the...

Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, sold a piece of property and brought proceeds from that sale to the apostles to contribute to the needs of the Jerusalem church. Unfortunately, there was a dark side to this seemingly virtuous act.

The word "but" at the...

Apollos was from Alexandria, a city on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 322 BC. The city served as the capital of Egypt until Egypt was conquered by Arabs in AD 641. It was an important cultural center due to its university (modeled...