The Gospel Goes to the Nations

Led by the Holy Spirit to a desert road, Philip meets an Ethiopian official reading Isaiah, explains the good news of Jesus, and baptizes him with joy.

Saul breathes murderous threats against believers until a blazing light from heaven blinds him on the Damascus road and Jesus calls him to be a chosen instrument.

Through a vision of a great sheet descending from heaven and a divine appointment in Caesarea, Peter discovers that God shows no partiality and welcomes Gentile families into faith.

While the church earnestly prays through the night, God sends an angel into a maximum security prison in Jerusalem to break Peter's chains and lead him out to Rhoda's knock.

The Holy Spirit calls Paul and Barnabas for missionary service in Antioch, and the church fasts, prays, and lays hands on them, sending them across the Mediterranean to Cyprus.

Beaten and locked in stocks in the darkest inner cell at Philippi, Paul and Silas pray and sing hymns at midnight until a violent earthquake shakes the prison foundations.

Paul and Silas arrive in Berea, where noble-minded believers receive the word with great eagerness and examine the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Surrounded by hundreds of stone idols in Athens, Paul stands before the Areopagus philosophers to proclaim the living Creator God who raised Jesus from the dead.

Falsely accused in Jerusalem and held in Caesarea, Paul stands before Governor Felix, Festus, and King Agrippa, boldly testifying to Christ's resurrection.

After surviving a raging tempest at sea and a shipwreck on Malta, Paul arrives in Rome, living in rented lodgings to proclaim the kingdom of God with all boldness and without hindrance.