Acts 1:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

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  • Luke 1:3 : 3 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
  • Matt 4:23-24 : 23 Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. 24 The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
  • Luke 7:21-23 : 21 In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight. 22 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. 23 Blessed is he who is not offended by me."
  • Luke 24:19 : 19 He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
  • John 10:32-38 : 32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?" 33 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." 34 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?' 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken), 36 Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' 37 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me. 38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
  • John 18:19-21 : 19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching. 20 Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."
  • Acts 2:22 : 22 "Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,
  • 1 Pet 2:21-23 : 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} an example, that you should follow his steps, 22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
  • Luke 1:24 : 24 After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,
  • Luke 3:23 : 23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

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    1Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

    2even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,

    3it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

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  • Acts 1:2-4
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    4Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

  • Mark 1:1-2
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  • Acts 10:37-38
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    37that spoken word you yourselves know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

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  • 1 John 1:1-3
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    1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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  • Acts 1:21-22
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    21Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

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    14Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God,

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    8I baptized you in{The Greek word (en) translated here as "in" could also be translated as "with" in some contexts.} water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

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  • Heb 1:1
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    1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

  • Luke 4:21
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    21He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

  • Rev 1:1-2
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    1This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

    2who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

  • John 15:27
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    27You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

  • Gen 1:1
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  • Acts 1:8
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    8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."

  • Matt 11:1
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    1It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

  • Luke 24:27
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    27Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

  • Mark 1:16
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    16Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea, for they were fishermen.

  • Luke 8:1
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    1It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,

  • Luke 4:17
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    17The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

  • 2 Pet 1:16
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    16For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

  • Mark 1:21
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    21They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.

  • Rom 1:1-2
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    1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God,

    2which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

  • Matt 14:1
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    1At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

  • John 1:14
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    14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

  • 2 Tim 1:1
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    1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

  • Acts 8:35
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    35Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.

  • Gal 1:2
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    2and all the brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

  • Mark 1:38
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    38He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this reason I came forth."

  • Acts 13:24
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    24before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.{TR, NU read "to all the people of Israel" instead of "to Israel"}

  • Mark 4:1
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    1Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

  • Matt 4:17
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    17From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."

  • Luke 3:1
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    1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

  • Mark 1:28
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    28The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.