The Apostles preached the Gospel all across the ancient world, but for the Apostle to the Gentiles, political status and cosmopolitan sensibilities were needed.

Today we discuss a first-century Jewish rabbi who saved the apostles from death sentences because they were attracting growing numbers of Jewish followers.

Peter's defiant defense made the Sanhedrin “furious and wanted to put them [apostles] to death” (Acts 5:33). Indeed, the apostles would have been executed if not for the intervention of the ...

The appearance of the apostles before the Sanhedrin in today’s first reading occurs in the context of repeated arrests and questionings of the followers of Jesus after their evangelizing mission ...

Jesus is the mystery that embodied the presence of God in the world. Peter and Paul were charged with conveying that mystery faithfully to the world. Jesus is the Christ, God’s anointed One ...

Who says these words? Not Jesus, Peter. But not really Peter, either. These words are Luke's words, because he wrote the Book of Acts, and put these words into Peter's mouth. He did not have a ...

The first reading shows how Peter lived that out. He is brought before the Sanhedrin and refuses to stop preaching about Jesus. He no longer rejects God to impress men.

As Peter and the apostles continued to proclaim the resurrection of Jesus from the dead and the forgiveness of sins through faith in him, the religious authorities sought to silence them with ...

This is the fifteenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. This post examines the second arrest of the disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. For ...

Each man, in a different way, gathered together the one family of Christ and, revered together throughout the world, they share one martyr’s crown.