Sentence examples for acts 1 from inspiring English sources

But here, Acts 1 and 2 are gloomy too.

The more leisurely paced Acts 1 and 2 are also engagingly handled, especially the bathing scene for Marguerite's ladies-in-waiting, a celebrated voyeur moment.

Ms. Louden is already moving in this direction, with one work here, "The Dance: Acts 1 Through 5" (2006), a three-channel animation projection in which random marks float between screens.

For Acts 1 and 3, Mr Wheeldon has opted for somewhat top-heavy staging, with two tuning-fork-shaped arches, epic staircases and four glacial sculptures around which some rather ghostly dancing is woven.

When a gap had been left by the defection and death of the traitor Judas Iscariot, immediate steps were taken to fill it by the election of Matthias (Acts 1).

His contribution is to rearrange theirpatterns in the 'white' acts and substitute banal pseudo-classical routines for the ballroom scenes in Acts 1 and 3. His emblematic figures - dwarf, doctor, animated suit of armour - are add-ons, clanking in and out of the wings without being integrated into the dancing.

He presided over the appointment of Matthias as an Apostle (Acts 1 23 26) to take the place of Judas, who had betrayed Christ and later died.

It was Peter who first "raised his voice" and preached at Pentecost, the day when the church came into being (Acts 1 14 39).

Whether or not Jesus appeared first to Peter after the Resurrection, he was a witness, which Peter declared to be a criterion of apostleship (Acts 1 22).

Acts 1 8 has the apostles being told to be witnesses "both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth".

Jesus' parting words, "It is not for you to know times [of the consummation of this age]…but you shall receive power…and you shall be my witnesses…" (Acts 1 7ff), provide a guideline for Luke's theology.