First Reading

Commentary on Isaiah 6:1-8

Commentary for this text is forthcoming.

Commentary on Acts 2:1-21

Commentary for this text is forthcoming.

Christ Taking Leave of the Apostles by Duccio di Buoninsegna
Commentary on Acts 1:15-17, 21-26

Commentary for this text is forthcoming.

Man
Commentary on Acts 1:1-11

While other New Testament writings briefly refer to Jesus’ ascension (Ephesians 4:8‒10; Philippians 2:9‒11; 1 [...]

Red apples on tree
Commentary on Acts 10:44-48

Last week’s text culminates with the Ethiopian eunuch’s exclamatory query to Philip the evangelist, “Look, [...]

Peaches on a branch
Commentary on Acts 8:26-40

The three preceding lectionary texts from Acts have focused on the extraordinary effects of the [...]

Commentary on Acts 4:5-12

As is common, the lectionary sections off (shorter) passages from within their larger narrative context. [...]

Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection, William Blake, c.1795
Commentary on Acts 3:12-19

Peter’s speech in Acts 3:12–19 interprets the dramatic events that have just occurred; to understand [...]

The Resurrected Christ Appearing to His Disciples, Luca Signorelli, 1514
Commentary on Acts 4:32-35

For a long time, Americans called the Sunday after Easter “Low Sunday”—a reference to how, [...]

Photo of stairs going up from a cave in Cyrus
Commentary on Acts 10:34-43

Every preacher knows that Easter Sunday can be at once the most wonderful and the [...]