1.Miracles of healing
-"Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done the apostles" (Acts 2:43)
-Immediately after Luke's summary in Luke 2:42-47, he inserts an example, the accounts of healing of the crippled beggar (3:1-10)
-The Jewish leaders confess that Peter had "done an outstanding miracle" (4:16)
-Other healing miracles associated with "signs and wonders"
-Acts 4:30
-Acts 5:12-16
-Acts 8:6-7
-Three important considerations
-The frequency of the "signs and wonders"
-The use of the term many (2:43, 5:12, 8:7)
-The use of the term all (5:16)
-The "rest of the sick" on Malta were healed (28:9)
-The intensity of the "signs and wonders"
-God's revelation of his will in "signs and wonders"
-3 Levels of healing
-Level 1 "Signs and Wonders" as in Acts and in various periods/places in church history
-Level 2: Healing/deliverance/other miracles as performed by Christians who have the spiritual gift of "miraculous powers" (1 Cor 12:10)
-Level 3: Healing/deliverance/other miracles as performed by Christians who do not have the spiritual gift of "miraculous powers"
Yes. Both Peter and Paul are portrayed as performing miracles of healing. In Acts, both apostles perform quite similar miracles, but those of Peter are consistently portrayed as more awe-inspiring and Peter is to be seen as the more worthy apostle. As much as Paul is portrayed as a man capable of performing great works and wonders, Peter is raised above him by these comparisons.
According to Acts, Peter's first miraculous cure was improbably similar to Paul’s first cure. In both cases, a man who had been lame since birth was immediately cured by being commanded to stand and walk. Peter’s first miracle cure (Acts 3:1-10) was performed in the name of Jesus, at the Temple, where the faithful saw the healed beggar praising God, and was the opportunity for some outstanding proselytising. Paul’s first cure (Acts 14:8-12) was clumsy and without apparent purpose, given that Paul did not tell the man about Jesus and he was even mistaken for a pagan god. The similarity of the two events tells us that Luke had one account in mind when creating the other, and went on to create a subtle comparison between the two apostles.
In an even more difficult challenge, Peter resurrected Tabitha, a good woman and a disciple, who was certainly dead and her body had already been washed. This miracle became known throughout Joppa and, as a result, many were converted. Paul also resuscitated a young man who foolishly fell asleep in an upper storey window and fell to the ground. There is some uncertainty as to whether the young man was really dead when Paul intervened to revive him, and the miracle did not present an opportunity to convert unbelievers.
In his epistles, Paul never mentions performing or experiencing miracles, and Paul presents himself as a man unlikely to have experienced miracles, other than the revelations from God. Paul faced many challenges to his authority, yet in his account he never performs miracles to persuade or repel his opponents, nor even describes those miracles that appear in Acts when to write about them would have enhanced his authority.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans.... pretty much the first half of the New testament. Matthew contains the most healing miracles, although the others are not far behind.
Acts is sometimes referred to as 'The Acts of the Holy Spirit.'
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The Book of Acts
A:The author of Acts of the Apostles, whose name is unknown to us but is traditionally assumed to be Luke, also wrote Luke's Gospel.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans.... pretty much the first half of the New testament. Matthew contains the most healing miracles, although the others are not far behind.
Yes both Moses and Elijah performed miracles.Comment: In the Old Testament, beside Moses and Elijah, Elisha the prophet preformed miracles. Then in the New Testament, of course Jesus preformed miracles and after Him Peter and John performed miracles. The Apostle Paul preformed miracles and used the power of God to do some strange things also.. (Acts 3:1-10; Acts 9:36-43; Acts 19: 11-16; Acts 20: 8-12.)
Who is Stephen in Acts of the Apostles?
Acts of the Apostles is about the early church, and Christians as well. It is written by Luke . It records the sermon and healing by peter and sermons of Peter where 3,000 people became Christians , Stephen also gave a powerful sermon as well.
Although written in the form of a history, Acts of the Apostles is essentially a work that compares the apostles Peter and Paul, such that Peter always comes across as the more worthy apostle. For example, they are both reported as performing comparable miracles, but in each case Paul's miracle was matched by at least one even more awe-inspiring and worthy miracle performed by Peter. Paul had never mentioned performing miracles, but decades later we find Acts attributing miracles to him, with Peter always performing another, somewhat similar but greater miracle and doing greater service for the Church. The author of Acts, traditionally Luke but this is very unlikely, was rewriting history.
A:Acording to Acts of the Apostles, Peter could perform the same miracles as Jesus had done, even raising Tabitha from the dead. Just as Jesus could perform involuntary miracles, such as when the woman with the issue of blood touched his hem and was cured, so also people brought the sick just in the hope that Peter's shadow would pass over them and they would be cured.One view of Acts would be that it is an extreme form of hagiography in the way it portrays the apostles, especially Peter and Paul, as being able to perform miracles at will. New Testament scholars say that Acts of the Apostles is a book of miracles rather than of history. Uta Ranke-Heinemann (Putting Away Childish Things) goes as far as to say that the whole of Acts is a simply a work of Propaganda. On this view, Saint Peter did not perform any miracles at all. This brings Peter back to the ranks of ordinary humans, unlike Jesus in the gospels.
Leo O'Reilly has written: 'Word and sign in the Acts of the Apostles' -- subject(s): Bible, Biblical teaching, Miracles, Theology, Word (Theology)
AnswerNo. The Acts of the Apostles is essentially a record of the supposed acts of Peter and Paul, perhaps even a subtle comparison of the two apostles. Apart from Stephen, who is not mentioned anywhere outside Acts, there is no real mention of the other apostles.
The Acts of the Apostles is in the New Testament of the Bible. It is the fifth book of the New Testament and follows the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
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It stands for the acts of the apostles. Acts is the book that describes the narrative of the early Apostles lives, focusing especially on the two most prominent of those Apostles which were Peter and Paul.
Acts of the Apostles.