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The major moments of Scripture — where it all went down.
227 events across the New Testament
227 events
Abraham sends his servant on an epic mission to find Isaac a wife — and God leads him straight to Rebekah.
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Abraham and his nephew Lot have so much livestock that the land can't support them both, so they part ways.
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Three visitors confirm Sarah will have a son within a year, and then Abraham negotiates with God to spare Sodom.
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When four kings capture Lot in a regional war, Abraham arms 318 trained men and launches a night raid to get him back.
1 chapter
David's own son turned the nation against him and seized the throne, forcing the king to flee Jerusalem on foot.
7 chapters
One man's hidden sin leads to Israel's shocking defeat — and reveals that obedience isn't optional.
2 chapters
Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem and deports King Jehoiachin along with thousands of Israel's best and brightest.
1 chapter
A pagan prophet is hired to curse Israel, but God won't let him — and his donkey sees an angel before he does.
3 chapters
The Israelites construct a portable worship tent — the Tabernacle — exactly as God designed it, and His glory fills it when it's complete.
9 chapters
The first family produces the first murder when Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy.
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God forms the first man from dust and the first woman from his side, placing them together in a perfect garden.
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God creates the heavens, the earth, and everything in them over six days, then rests on the seventh.
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Israel miraculously crosses the Jordan River on dry ground to enter the Promised Land.
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God parts the Red Sea so the Israelites walk through on dry ground, then closes it on the pursuing Egyptian army.
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Four Jewish teenagers are handpicked for Babylon's elite training program — and immediately take a stand about what they will and won't compromise on.
1 chapter
Jealous officials trick the king into a law that targets Daniel's prayer life — and he ends up spending the night with lions.
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Daniel receives a series of stunning visions about future empires, cosmic battles, and the ultimate triumph of God's kingdom.
6 chapters
David saw a woman bathing from his rooftop, slept with her, and then arranged her husband's death to cover it up.
2 chapters
God sent Samuel to anoint a new king — not any of seven impressive older brothers, but the youngest one out watching sheep.
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After Saul's death and years of civil war, all twelve tribes finally united under David — and he made Jerusalem his capital.
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David brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem with joyful celebration — dancing before God with everything he had.
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A shepherd boy with a sling and five stones walked out to face a nine-foot warrior — and won with the first shot.
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David ordered a census against God's will, and the resulting plague killed 70,000 people before stopping at a threshing floor — the future site of the temple.
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David expanded Israel's borders in every direction, defeating the Philistines, Moabites, Arameans, and Edomites.
6 chapters
A prophetess and a reluctant general lead Israel to victory — but a woman gets the final blow.
2 chapters
God sends the prophet Elijah to announce a devastating drought, then personally provides for him through ravens and a widow's miraculous flour and oil.
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Fresh off his greatest victory, Elijah runs for his life from Jezebel's death threat and has a deeply personal encounter with God in the wilderness.
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On Mount Carmel, Elijah challenges 450 prophets of Baal to a showdown — and God answers with fire from heaven that ends the debate.
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Elijah is taken up to heaven in a whirlwind with a chariot and horses of fire, and his protégé Elisha picks up his mantle — literally and figuratively.
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Esau comes home starving and trades his entire birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a bowl of stew.
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A Jewish orphan girl wins a royal beauty contest and becomes queen of Persia — setting the stage for one of the Bible's greatest rescue stories.
2 chapters
Esther risks her life to expose Haman's plot, and the tables turn completely — the man who built a gallows ends up hanging from it.
6 chapters
Ezekiel sees the wildest vision in the Bible — living creatures, spinning wheels, and the glory of God.
1 chapter
The entire community gathers to hear God's law read aloud — and what starts with tears ends with celebration and a solemn covenant.
3 chapters
A scholar-priest leads a second wave of returnees to Jerusalem and confronts a crisis that threatens everything they've rebuilt.
4 chapters
God calls the least likely person in the weakest clan — then whittles his army from 32,000 to 300.
3 chapters
A boy serving in the temple heard his name called in the night — it turned out to be God himself.
1 chapter
God tells a 75-year-old man to leave everything he knows and go to a land he's never seen — and Abraham goes.
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God makes a binding covenant with Abraham, promising him descendants as numerous as the stars and a land to call their own.
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David wanted to build God a house, but God turned it around — promising David a dynasty that would last forever.
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After the flood, God makes a promise sealed with a rainbow: he will never destroy the earth with water again.
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Sarah gets tired of waiting for a child and gives her servant Hagar to Abraham — and it backfires immediately.
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A royal official's bruised ego leads to a genocidal decree against every Jewish person in the Persian Empire.
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A heartbroken woman's desperate prayer in the temple changed the course of Israel's history.
2 chapters
King Hezekiah is told he's going to die, prays desperately, and God adds fifteen years to his life.
1 chapter
When the Assyrian empire surrounds Jerusalem and mocks Israel's God, King Hezekiah prays — and an angel destroys 185,000 soldiers in a single night.
3 chapters
God tells Hosea to marry a woman who will be unfaithful — as a living picture of Israel's betrayal.
3 chapters
Isaiah sees God seated on a throne, surrounded by angels, and volunteers for a divine mission.
1 chapter
The people looked at every other nation and decided they wanted a king too — God saw it as a rejection of his rule.
1 chapter
After twenty years apart, Jacob bows before Esau — and Esau runs to embrace him.
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On his deathbed, Jacob gathers all twelve sons and speaks prophetic blessings over each one — shaping the future of Israel's tribes.
2 chapters
With his mother's help, Jacob disguises himself as Esau and tricks his blind father into giving him the firstborn's blessing.
1 chapter
The night before facing Esau, Jacob wrestles a mysterious figure until dawn and refuses to let go without a blessing.
1 chapter
Jacob works seven years for the woman he loves, gets tricked into marrying her sister, then works seven more years.
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Jacob learns his son is alive, packs up the entire family, and moves to Egypt — setting the stage for everything that follows.
2 chapters
Fleeing from Esau, Jacob sleeps under the stars and dreams of a stairway to heaven with angels going up and down.
1 chapter
Facing a massive invasion, King Jehoshaphat sends worship singers to the front lines instead of soldiers — and God ambushes the enemy armies so they destroy each other.
1 chapter
Elisha sends a prophet to anoint the military commander Jehu as king, and Jehu carries out a bloody purge of Ahab's entire dynasty and Baal worship in Israel.
2 chapters
A rejected son becomes Israel's deliverer but makes a devastating vow he can't take back.
2 chapters
Officials throw Jeremiah into a muddy cistern to die, but an unlikely rescuer pulls him out.
1 chapter
God tells a young Jeremiah he was chosen before birth — and the job won't be easy.
1 chapter
Jeroboam sets up two golden calves at Dan and Bethel so his people won't travel to Jerusalem to worship — and it becomes Israel's defining sin.
2 chapters
A righteous man loses everything in a single day, and the question of why good people suffer gets its most honest examination.
4 chapters
After a devastating locust plague, Joel delivers a promise — God will pour out his Spirit on everyone.
2 chapters
God tells Jonah to go east. Jonah books a boat west. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
4 chapters
After Jacob's death, the brothers panic that Joseph will finally take revenge — but he responds with one of the Bible's greatest lines about God's sovereignty.
1 chapter
Joseph rises to run an Egyptian official's household, then gets thrown in prison for refusing to sleep with his master's wife.
1 chapter
Joseph goes from prison to palace in a single day by interpreting dreams that no one else in Egypt can explain.
2 chapters
Joseph can't hold it together any longer — he clears the room, breaks down weeping, and tells his stunned brothers who he really is.
1 chapter
Joseph's brothers are so jealous of their father's favorite that they sell him to slave traders and fake his death.
1 chapter
When famine drives Joseph's brothers to Egypt for food, they bow before him without recognizing him — just like his childhood dreams predicted.
3 chapters
Joshua challenges Israel to choose who they will serve — and they choose God.
2 chapters
When workers renovating the temple discover a lost copy of God's law, young King Josiah tears his robes and launches the most sweeping religious reform in Judah's history.
4 chapters
A group of Israelite leaders challenge Moses and Aaron's authority, and the earth literally opens up and swallows them.
2 chapters
Jeremiah pours out raw grief over Jerusalem's destruction in some of the most heartbreaking poetry in the Bible.
5 chapters
After killing an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew slave, Moses becomes a fugitive and starts a new life as a shepherd in the wilderness.
1 chapter
A Hebrew baby is hidden from Pharaoh's death decree and ends up being raised in the Egyptian palace by Pharaoh's own daughter.
2 chapters
Moses delivers his farewell addresses to Israel, passes leadership to Joshua, and dies on a mountain overlooking the land he'll never enter.
10 chapters
A powerful Syrian general with leprosy swallows his pride, follows Elisha's instructions to wash in the Jordan seven times, and is completely healed.
1 chapter
When a man named Naboth refuses to sell his family vineyard, Queen Jezebel has him framed and executed — and God sends Elijah with a devastating judgment.
1 chapter
The king has a dream no one can interpret — until Daniel steps up and reveals a prophecy about the rise and fall of world empires.
1 chapter
The most powerful man in the world loses his mind and lives like an animal until he finally acknowledges that God is the real king.
1 chapter
A cupbearer to the Persian king gets heartbreaking news about Jerusalem — and talks his way into leading the most famous construction project in the Bible.
6 chapters
Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem after a trip to Persia and finds the people have already backslid — so he rolls up his sleeves and cleans house.
1 chapter
God gives Noah detailed blueprints for a massive boat and a mission to save his family and two of every animal.
1 chapter
Noah gets drunk, Ham dishonors him, and the fallout shapes the futures of Noah's three sons' descendants.
1 chapter
When Queen Athaliah seizes Judah's throne by killing the royal family, one infant prince is hidden in the temple for six years until a priest leads a coup to restore him.
3 chapters
A Canaanite woman risks everything to hide Israel's spies and ends up in the lineage of Jesus.
1 chapter
A foreign widow's loyalty to her mother-in-law leads her into the ancestry of King David.
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The strongest man in Israel is undone by the one person he trusted with his secret.
4 chapters
Sarah dies at 127, and Abraham buys the first piece of the Promised Land — a burial cave in Hebron.
1 chapter
A tall young man went searching for lost donkeys and came home anointed as Israel's first king.
4 chapters
With God silent and the Philistines closing in, Saul broke his own law and visited a medium to summon the dead prophet Samuel.
4 chapters
Jealousy consumed Saul and he spent years hunting David through the wilderness — but David refused to harm God's anointed king.
10 chapters
Saul couldn't wait for Samuel and offered the sacrifice himself — then disobeyed again with the Amalekites. Two strikes, kingdom gone.
3 chapters
God offered Solomon anything he wanted — Solomon chose wisdom to lead well, and God gave him everything else on top of it.
3 chapters
David's final days were a political thriller — one son grabbed for the crown while Bathsheba and Nathan secured it for Solomon.
4 chapters
Solomon built a magnificent temple for God — and when it was dedicated, God's glory filled the building so powerfully the priests couldn't stand.
10 chapters
The wisest man who ever lived married 700 wives who turned his heart toward other gods — and it cost his son the kingdom.
1 chapter
Israel brought the Ark of the Covenant into battle like a lucky charm — and the Philistines took it.
4 chapters
Sennacherib's massive army surrounds Jerusalem, talks trash, and gets destroyed overnight by an angel.
2 chapters
God asks Abraham to sacrifice his only promised son — the most gut-wrenching test of faith in the entire Bible.
1 chapter
The promised son finally arrives — Sarah is around 90 years old, and she names him Isaac, meaning 'he laughs.'
1 chapter
Adam and Eve have another son, Seth, and through his line people begin to call on the name of the Lord.
2 chapters
When poisonous snakes overrun the Israelite camp as judgment for their complaining, God tells Moses to make a bronze snake — and anyone who looks at it lives.
1 chapter
God speaks to Moses from a bush that's on fire but doesn't burn up, and commissions him to go free the Israelites from Egypt.
2 chapters
Israel falls into a repeating pattern — sin, oppression, crying out, rescue, and then sin again.
2 chapters
God establishes Yom Kippur — the one day each year when the high priest enters the Most Holy Place to make atonement for the entire nation's sins.
2 chapters
God rains fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, but rescues Lot's family first — though Lot's wife doesn't make it.
1 chapter
Joshua divides Canaan among the twelve tribes of Israel, fulfilling God's ancient promise.
7 chapters
A serpent's deception leads Adam and Eve to eat the one fruit God forbade, and everything changes.
1 chapter
Israel marches around Jericho for seven days, and the walls come crashing down.
1 chapter
Jerusalem is destroyed, the temple is burned to the ground, and the remaining people are dragged into exile.
3 chapters
Babylon finally breaks through Jerusalem's walls, and everything Jeremiah warned about comes true.
2 chapters
After centuries of idolatry and ignoring prophetic warnings, the Assyrian empire conquers the northern kingdom of Israel and scatters its people across the empire.
1 chapter
Three men refuse to bow to a golden statue and get thrown into a furnace — where a mysterious fourth figure walks with them through the flames.
1 chapter
God strikes down every firstborn in Egypt, but passes over the homes of Israelites who mark their doorframes with lamb's blood.
3 chapters
The Gibeonites trick Israel into a peace treaty by pretending to be from a distant land.
1 chapter
While Moses is on the mountain receiving God's instructions, the Israelites get impatient and build an idol to worship — a golden calf.
3 chapters
Rain falls for forty days, floodwaters cover the earth, and every living thing outside the ark is destroyed.
2 chapters
After Solomon's death, his son Rehoboam's harsh leadership drives ten tribes to break away and form their own nation under Jeroboam.
3 chapters
A genealogy traces the line from Noah's son Shem down to a man named Abram — setting the stage for everything that follows.
1 chapter
Cain's descendants build cities and invent music and metalwork, but violence escalates with each generation.
1 chapter
Ten generations span from Adam to Noah, with lifespans stretching into the hundreds of years.
1 chapter
God promises through Jeremiah that a new kind of covenant is coming — one written on human hearts.
1 chapter
The Queen of Sheba traveled from afar to test Solomon's wisdom — and left saying the reports hadn't told her the half of it.
2 chapters
After seventy years in Babylon, the first wave of exiles finally goes home — and starts rebuilding the temple from scratch.
6 chapters
Syria besieges Samaria so severely that people resort to cannibalism — but God sends the enemy fleeing in panic overnight, and food prices crash by morning.
2 chapters
God gives Abraham a new name, a new covenant sign, and the seemingly impossible promise that 99-year-old Sarah will have a son.
1 chapter
Isaiah delivers a prophecy to a nervous king — a virgin will conceive a son called Immanuel.
1 chapter
Isaiah describes a mysterious figure who will be crushed for the sins of others and bring healing through his wounds.
2 chapters
Joshua asks God to stop the sun in the sky — and God does it.
1 chapter
Noah's three sons become the ancestors of every nation on earth, and Genesis maps out who came from whom.
1 chapter
God descends on Mount Sinai in fire and smoke and gives Israel the Ten Commandments — the foundation of their covenant relationship.
6 chapters
God sends ten devastating plagues on Egypt — each one escalating — as Pharaoh repeatedly refuses to let the Israelites go.
5 chapters
Humanity bands together to build a tower reaching heaven, so God scatters them by confusing their languages.
1 chapter
Twelve scouts explore the Promised Land, but ten come back terrified, and the people's refusal to trust God costs them forty years in the desert.
2 chapters
God takes Ezekiel to a valley full of skeletons and asks, 'Can these bones live?'
1 chapter
A horrific crime nearly wipes out an entire tribe of Israel in a devastating civil war.
3 chapters
Humanity becomes so corrupt that God regrets making people and decides to start over.
1 chapter
A mysterious hand writes a message on the palace wall during a drunken party — and it spells the end of the Babylonian Empire.
1 chapter
God provides miraculous food and water for the Israelites as they travel through the desert, despite their constant complaining.
3 chapters
Elizabeth's impossible pregnancy ends in celebration, and Zechariah finally gets his voice back.
1 chapter
An angel appears to an elderly priest in the temple and promises him a son who will prepare the way for the Messiah.
1 chapter
Eight days after his birth, the baby is circumcised and given the name the angel commanded.
1 chapter
An angel intervenes just as Joseph is about to quietly end his engagement to Mary.
1 chapter
Two pregnant women share a moment of prophetic joy that becomes one of the most famous songs in Scripture.
1 chapter
Mary and Joseph bring baby Jesus to the temple, where two elderly prophets recognize exactly who he is.
1 chapter
Gabriel visits a young woman in Nazareth and tells her she will carry the Son of God.
1 chapter
The Messiah arrives not in a palace but in a feeding trough, because there was no room anywhere else.
1 chapter
At twelve years old, Jesus stays behind in Jerusalem and astonishes the temple scholars.
1 chapter
An angel warns Joseph in a dream to flee — Herod is coming for the child.
1 chapter
Matthew opens his Gospel by tracing Jesus' family tree all the way back to Abraham.
1 chapter
When Herod realizes the wise men have outsmarted him, he orders the killing of every young boy in Bethlehem.
1 chapter
After Herod dies, an angel tells Joseph it's safe to go home — but not to Bethlehem.
1 chapter
The first people to hear about the Messiah's birth aren't kings or priests — they're shepherds working the night shift.
1 chapter
Foreign scholars travel a vast distance to honor a newborn king, guided by nothing but a star.
1 chapter
God redirects the wise men so they never report back to Herod.
1 chapter
John the Baptist baptizes Jesus in the Jordan River, and God's voice declares him as his Son.
3 chapters
Jesus calls fishermen and ordinary workers to follow him, and they leave everything behind.
4 chapters
Jesus overturns the money changers' tables and drives merchants out of the temple courts.
4 chapters
Herod executes John the Baptist after a rash promise made at a birthday party.
2 chapters
Jesus feeds a massive crowd with just five loaves of bread and two fish — and there are twelve baskets of leftovers.
4 chapters
Friends lower a paralyzed man through a roof to reach Jesus, who forgives his sins and heals him.
3 chapters
Jesus frees a man tormented by a legion of demons, sending them into a herd of pigs.
3 chapters
Jesus gives sight to a man blind from birth, sparking a heated debate about who Jesus really is.
1 chapter
A respected religious leader visits Jesus at night and hears that everyone must be 'born again.'
1 chapter
A violent storm terrifies the disciples, but Jesus wakes up and tells the wind and waves to stop.
3 chapters
In the middle of the night, Jesus walks across a stormy lake to reach his disciples' boat.
3 chapters
Jesus tells the story of a despised outsider who shows more compassion than the religious elite.
1 chapter
A son demands his inheritance, wastes it all, and comes home to a father who runs to welcome him back.
1 chapter
Jesus explains why people respond to God's message so differently — using a simple farming story.
3 chapters
Peter declares that Jesus is the Messiah — and Jesus reveals what that will actually cost him.
3 chapters
A synagogue leader's daughter dies, but Jesus takes her hand and brings her back to life.
3 chapters
Jesus arrives four days after his friend's death, weeps at the tomb, then calls Lazarus back to life.
1 chapter
Jesus sends out seventy-two followers on a broader mission, and they return amazed at what happened.
1 chapter
Jesus gives his twelve disciples authority and sends them out to preach, heal, and cast out demons.
3 chapters
Jesus delivers his most famous teaching — a radical vision of what it looks like to live in God's kingdom.
3 chapters
Jesus spends forty days in the desert, where Satan tempts him three times — and he refuses every offer.
3 chapters
Jesus sits on the Mount of Olives and describes what the end of the age will look like.
4 chapters
On a mountaintop, Jesus is transformed — his face shining like the sun — as Moses and Elijah appear beside him.
3 chapters
Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey as crowds wave palm branches and shout his praises.
4 chapters
Jesus performs his first miracle, turning water into wine at a wedding celebration.
1 chapter
Jesus breaks social barriers by having a deep theological conversation with a Samaritan woman.
1 chapter
Thomas refuses to believe until he sees for himself — and then Jesus shows up.
1 chapter
Mary Magdalene is the first person to see the risen Jesus — and she almost doesn't recognize him.
2 chapters
Pilate finds no guilt in Jesus but buckles under political pressure and hands him over to be crucified.
5 chapters
By a charcoal fire on the beach, Jesus asks Peter three times: 'Do you love me?'
1 chapter
Jesus, the teacher and Lord, kneels down and washes his disciples' feet like a servant.
1 chapter
Jesus prays for himself, his disciples, and all future believers in one of the most intimate moments in Scripture.
1 chapter
Peter, who swore he'd die for Jesus, denies knowing him three times before the rooster crows.
4 chapters
A woman pours expensive perfume on Jesus, and he says she's preparing him for burial.
3 chapters
Judas betrays Jesus with a kiss, and an armed crowd takes him into custody.
4 chapters
A wealthy follower named Joseph buries Jesus in his own new tomb before the Sabbath begins.
4 chapters
Jesus is nailed to a cross between two criminals, and darkness covers the land as the Son of God dies.
4 chapters
Overwhelmed by guilt, Judas returns the silver and takes his own life.
1 chapter
Jesus prepares his disciples for life after he's gone, promising the Holy Spirit and calling them friends.
3 chapters
Jesus agonizes in prayer, asking if there's another way — then surrenders to the Father's plan.
3 chapters
Jesus gives his final marching orders: go make disciples of every nation.
2 chapters
Jesus shares a final Passover meal with his disciples and transforms it into something entirely new.
3 chapters
The religious leaders conspire to arrest and kill Jesus, and Judas offers to betray him.
3 chapters
On the third day, the tomb is empty. Jesus is alive. Everything changes.
4 chapters
Two heartbroken disciples walk with a stranger who turns out to be the risen Jesus.
1 chapter
The religious leaders put Jesus on trial at night, looking for any charge that will stick.
4 chapters
A couple lies about a financial gift to the church and both drop dead on the spot.
1 chapter
The apostles choose Matthias to fill the vacancy left by Judas Iscariot.
1 chapter
Paul writes one of the most beloved passages in Scripture about the unbreakable love of God.
1 chapter
Paul and Silas sing hymns in a Philippian jail, then an earthquake opens every door.
1 chapter
Paul debates Greek philosophers and delivers his famous 'unknown god' speech on Mars Hill.
1 chapter
Paul arrives in Rome and spends two years freely teaching about Jesus under house arrest.
1 chapter
Paul returns to Jerusalem despite warnings and is seized by an angry mob in the temple.
2 chapters
Paul makes his case before Felix, Festus, and King Agrippa — and appeals to Caesar.
3 chapters
Paul gives an emotional goodbye to the church leaders from Ephesus, knowing he'll never see them again.
1 chapter
Paul and Barnabas set out to bring the gospel across Cyprus and modern-day Turkey.
2 chapters
Paul survives a catastrophic shipwreck on his voyage to stand trial in Rome.
2 chapters
Peter heals a man who has been unable to walk since birth, and all of Jerusalem notices.
2 chapters
An angel breaks Peter out of prison the night before his scheduled execution.
1 chapter
God uses a strange vision and a Roman centurion to show Peter that the gospel is for everyone.
2 chapters
Philip meets an Ethiopian official reading Isaiah on a desert road and baptizes him on the spot.
1 chapter
Stephen becomes the first Christian martyr, stoned to death while forgiving his killers.
2 chapters
The apostles are arrested and beaten but refuse to stop preaching about Jesus.
1 chapter
Jesus gives his final instructions and ascends to heaven as his disciples watch.
1 chapter
The church's most aggressive persecutor is struck blind on the road to Damascus and becomes its greatest advocate.
1 chapter
The early church leaders decide that Gentile believers don't need to follow Jewish law to be saved.
1 chapter
The Holy Spirit arrives like a rushing wind, and the church is born in a single day.
1 chapter
Paul lays out the most systematic explanation of the gospel ever written.
5 chapters
Paul's preaching threatens the idol-making industry in Ephesus, and the city erupts in a riot.
1 chapter