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Acts: from an upper room to Rome

Luke's second volume follows the message from Jerusalem to the capital of the empire. This path covers Pentecost, the first conflicts, the decision to include Gentiles, Paul's journeys, and what Acts describes rather than prescribes.

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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Acts 1:8

What you'll come away with

What this path is for

Not a reading streak. These are the things you should be able to do on your own once you have worked through it.

  • Follow the geography

    Acts 1:8 is the outline: Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, the ends of the earth. You will always know which movement of the book you are in.

  • Understand the Gentile question

    Chapters 10, 11, and 15 settle the hardest issue the early church faced. You will be able to explain the decision and the reasoning behind it.

  • Read Paul's journeys with a map

    Three journeys and a voyage to Rome, matched up with the letters he wrote along the way.

  • Tell description from prescription

    Acts reports pooled possessions, casting lots, and dramatic conversions. You will have a framework for deciding what carries over.

How the tutor works

A tutor, not a search box

The same eight habits run through every path. They are what make this study rather than summary.

  • Questions first

    Every lesson asks before it tells. A few quick questions check what you noticed, then Trinity explains the answer.

  • Greek and Hebrew, one tap away

    Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it. See what it can mean and where else it shows up.

  • Follow the thread

    Pick one image, promise, or line. Follow it from Genesis through the prophets into the Gospels.

  • Context that clicks

    Maps, timelines, and who wrote it to whom. Get the background the first readers already knew.

  • 26 paths and counting

    Walk through a whole book, Genesis to Revelation, or take a short theme like the Beatitudes or the Lord's Prayer.

  • Bring your doubts

    Ask the question you'd never ask out loud. Trinity takes it seriously, no judgment.

  • Pick up where you left off

    Trinity keeps notes on your questions and where you stopped. Next time, it starts right there.

  • Every side, fairly told

    On baptism, the end times, and more, you get the main views and their best arguments. Disputed questions are labelled as disputed.

The path itself

What you'll study, in order

Each unit builds on the one before it. Lessons live inside Trinity; this is the shape of the ground you will cover.

Jerusalem

  • Forty days, then an ascension

  • Replacing Judas

  • Pentecost, and Peter's sermon

  • Life together in chapters 2 and 4

  • Ananias and Sapphira

  • Stephen's speech and death

Judea and Samaria

  • Persecution scatters the church

  • Philip, Samaria, and an Ethiopian official

  • Saul on the Damascus road

  • Peter, Cornelius, and a sheet from heaven

  • Antioch, where they were first called Christians

The Gentile decision

  • The first journey

  • Trouble at Antioch

  • The Jerusalem council in chapter 15

  • What was decided, and why

  • Galatians read alongside Acts 15

Into the empire

  • Philippi: a jailer and an earthquake

  • Thessalonica and Berea

  • Athens and the Areopagus

  • Corinth and Ephesus

  • The riot of the silversmiths

To Rome

  • Farewell at Miletus

  • Arrest in Jerusalem

  • Two years in Caesarea

  • Appeals, Agrippa, and a shipwreck

  • The open-ended last verse

I've led a small group for six years, and honestly I was mostly repeating Sunday's sermon. Trinity kept asking what the passage actually said before it would tell me anything. Our Thursday nights are better for it.

Marcus T.

Small-group leader, Ohio

I was baptized in March and still couldn't find anything in the Bible. I asked what a psalm even is, which felt embarrassing to type. It showed me Psalm 13, a man complaining to God. I didn't know that was allowed.

Priya N.

New believer, Lisbon

I mostly use it for word study. When I'm stuck on a Greek term, it walks me through what it can mean without pretending the question is settled. It's told me "scholars disagree here" more than once, which I respect.

Daniel K.

Seminary student, Georgia

Forty years in church and I'd never finished the Bible. I'm in Numbers now. Not thrilling, but I'm still going. Most days I read it before the kettle's boiled.

Ruth A.

Retired nurse, Northumberland

I'm not sure I believe any of it yet. I came in wanting to argue, and I still do. It argues back properly. It names the best objection before I can, and it doesn't sulk when I won't concede.

Tobias E.

Software engineer, Munich

I ask it what a fifteen-year-old would really ask about a chapter. It gives me the awkward questions, not the tidy ones. Twice now it's sent me off to study properly, which I suppose is the point.

Alanah W.

Youth worker, Auckland

I read on my phone during my eleven-minute break, and it never tries to make it an hour. Last week it caught that I'd misread who was speaking in Job. It was one of the friends, not God. Changed the whole chapter for me.

Sam O.

Warehouse supervisor, Ontario

I work in two languages, so I'm fussy about words. I asked why one Hebrew word is lovingkindness in one place and steadfast love in another. I got a real answer about hesed, not a devotional paragraph.

Hélène B.

Translator, Québec

I worried it would hand my people easy answers to hard chapters. It mostly doesn't. Someone asked it about hell, and it laid out what Christians have held and said plainly which parts are disputed. I can work with that.

Owen R.

Church planter, South Wales

I sit with dying people, so I don't have much patience for cheerfulness. I'd been avoiding the lament psalms. It walked me through Psalm 88, which ends in the dark and stays there, and it didn't rush to fix it.

Jeanette M.

Hospice chaplain, Missouri

I'd abandoned three reading plans before this one. I went quiet for a while, came back, and it just carried on. No lecture. I'm in Isaiah now.

Idris F.

Graduate student, Nairobi

Before you start

Questions people ask about this path

Christians read this differently. Luke reports it as what the Jerusalem church did, not as a command to every church. The path shows the arguments on both sides and the later letters that bear on it.

This is genuinely disputed between Pentecostal, charismatic, and cessationist Christians. Trinity lays out how each group reads Acts 2, 8, 10 and 19, and what each does with 1 Corinthians 12 to 14.

Paul is under house arrest, still preaching, and Luke stops. Proposals range from Luke writing before the outcome was known to an intentional open ending. Trinity gives you the main ones.

It helps, since Acts is volume two and picks up where the Gospel left off, but it is not required. Trinity fills in what Luke established whenever it matters.

Start this path today

The first unit is free, and you do not need to know anything going in. Trinity will ask what you noticed before it explains a thing.

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