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Acts 20 is the twentieth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the Christian New Testament of ... (verse 7; cf. Acts 2:42), which started on Saturday night (at that ...
This is made clear in Acts 20:7 when Paul continued his message "until midnight" and a young man went to sleep and fell out of the window. Christians celebrate on Sunday because it is the day on which Jesus had risen from the dead and on which the Holy Spirit had come to the apostles.
Breaking bread (daily or weekly) may refer to Christian fellowship, agape feasts, or Eucharist (cf. Acts 2:42, 20:7). Didache 14 was apparently understood by the writers of the Didascalia and Apostolic Constitutions as a reference to Sunday worship. Around 110 AD, St. Ignatius of Antioch used "Lord's" in a passage of his letter to the ...
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
(1) Acts 20:4 states that Tychicus was from the Roman province of Asia.The Western text indicates that he was an Ephesian.. Paul ends the letter to the Ephesians, and hands it over to Tychicus.
Acts 20:32 = Ephesians 1:14,18 [37] "The inheritance of the saints." Purpose. The purpose of the epistle, and to whom it was written, are matters of much speculation. ...
"For although in the Acts of the Apostles the eunuch is described as at once baptized by Philip, because "he believed with his whole heart," this is not a fair parallel. For he was a Jew, and as he came from the temple of the Lord he was reading the prophet Isaiah," (Cyprian) [ 35 ] and is found in the Old Latin (2nd/3rd century) and the ...
The Sixth Sunday of Pascha is the Sunday of the Blind Man, [7] ... The Epistle for the Divine Liturgy is from Acts 20:16-18 [h] and Acts 20:28-36. [i] ...