Acts 10:1-8 An item from yesterday, repeated today… Yesterday’s Acts 9:43 and today’s verse 6 noted that Peter was staying in Joppa with “Simon, a tanner”. My Study Bible noted that a tanner would have regularly dealt with the skins of dead animals and therefore would have been unclean and rejected by “devout” Jews. Peter’s …
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February 7 / Acts 9:31-43
Acts 9:31-43 My Study Bible pointed out that Jesus had brought three people back from death – Jairus’ daughter (Mark 5), the only son of a widow (Luke 7), and Lazarus (John 11). But there is one item particularly significant in Peter’s raising Dorcas – before Peter spoke and Dorcas awakened, Peter knelt down and …
February 6 / Acts 9:20-30
Acts 9:20-30 More Saul activity today… When many days had passed… (v. 23a) Luke writes “many days”, but to learn more we have to go to Paul’s own writings. He tells his story in Galatians 1:13 ff, and his “many days” turns out to be three years. So he was in Damascus and the neighboring …
February 5 / Acts 9:10-19
Acts 9:10-19 Ananias: Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem. (v. 13) Luke writes that The witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. (Acts 7:58) I’ve always imagined this “young man named Saul” to be …
February 4 / Acts 9:1-9
Acts 9:1-9 I have often joked that Saul’s conversion was easier than mine. Paul was knocked from his horse. (Really? Yeah, maybe not in the text, but check out the hundreds of paintings of Saul’s conversion!) And Jesus identified Himself and spoke directly to him! It took a young man named Jim 3-1/2 years to …
February 3 / Acts 8:26-40
Acts 8:26-40 Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch… But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea. (v. 40) My Study Bible points out that we do not hear from Philip again until Acts 21:8 when Paul and Luke stayed at …
February 2 / Acts 8:14-25
Acts 8:14-25 Yesterday I suggested that we list Simon the Sorcerer as a believer and see what follows in the next reading. Well, the next reading, itself, is mixed. First Peter condemns Simon for wanting to buy “Holy Spirit power”. Then Simon apparently “repents” and asks for prayer that Peter’s condemnation not fall on him. …
February 1 / Acts 8:4-13
Acts 8:4-13 We were talking in our Men’s Group recently about healing. I asked/wondered why we saw all these miraculous healings in the 1st century church, but we see fewer miraculous healings today. There followed a lengthy discussion, the most of which I recall as the “miracle of modern medicine”, which did not satisfy me …
February 2020 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Feb Acts 8:4-13 10 02-Feb Acts 8:14-25 12 03-Feb Acts 8:26-40 15 04-Feb Acts 9:1-9 9 05-Feb Acts 9:10-19 10 06-Feb Acts 9:20-30 11 07-Feb Acts 9:31-43 13 08-Feb Acts 10:1-8 8 09-Feb Acts 10:9-16 8 10-Feb Acts 10:17-23 7 11-Feb Acts 10:24-33 10 12-Feb Acts 10:34-48 15 13-Feb Acts 11:1-18 18 …
January 31 / Acts 8:1-3
Acts 8:1-3 Only three verses today, but an information-packed three verses, with Saul as a major player. …they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. (v. 1b) My Study Bible made two points here. First, this verse is the fulfillment of Jesus’ prediction/charge from Acts 1:8, “…you will be …