Acts features the " baptism in the Holy Spirit " on Pentecost and the subsequent spirit-inspired speaking in tongues.

Acts also features an emphasis on prayer and includes a number of notable prayers such as the Believers ' Prayer (), Stephen's death prayer (), and Simon Magus ' prayer ().

The two-player version of the game features three Zones split into two Acts each.

The Western text had a large number of characteristic features, which appeared in text of the Gospels, Book of Acts, and in Pauline epistles.

The majority of the ancient universities of the British Isles are located within Scotland, and have a number of distinctive features in common, being governed by a series of measures laid down in the Universities ( Scotland ) Acts 1858-1966.

Acts 16: 31 is the example used in the Publisher's Foreword, illustrating some of the features of the Amplified Bible, in comparison with other translations:

This term appears in two verses of the canonical Gospel of Matthew, twenty-four verses of the Acts of the Apostles, fifty-eight verses of the letters of Paul the Apostle ( including the earliest instances of its use in relation to a Christian body ), two verses of the Letter to the Hebrews, one verse of the Epistle of James, three verses of the Third Epistle of John, and nineteen verses of the Book of Revelation.

The act was later extended to Scotland, as a result of the Treaty of Union ( Article II ), enacted in the Acts of Union 1707 before it was ever needed.

However, it is more likely that it was written during his extended stay in Ephesus, where he refers to sending Timothy to them ( Acts 19: 22, I Cor.

The resolutions opposed the federal Alien and Sedition Acts, which extended the powers of the federal government.

In October 1935, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the recently passed Neutrality Acts and placed an embargo on arms and munitions to both sides, but extended a further " moral embargo " to the belligerent Italians, including other trade items.

Sunday Observance Acts were repealed, pub opening hours were extended, discriminatory regulations — such as the long-standing ban on women entering or drinking in public bars — were removed, and in the 1970s the age of legal majority was lowered from 21 to 18.

The Tudors extended their power beyond modern England, achieving the full union of England and the Principality of Wales in 1542 ( Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542 ); and successfully asserting English authority over the Kingdom of Ireland.

The Naturalization Act of 1798, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, was passed by the Federalists and extended the residency requirement from five to fourteen years.

He strengthened royal authority in the north of England through reform of the Council of the North, extended royal power and introduced religious reform in Ireland, and was the architect of legislation, the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542, which promoted stability and gained acceptance for the royal supremacy in Wales.

" It is not clear whether subsequent Acts of Congress extended these provisions.

Bailiwick of Guernsey Laws and United Kingdom Acts of Parliament can ( the latter as also in the case of all the other Channel Islands ) be extended to Sark with the consent of Chief Pleas.

Following the referendum held in March 2011, in which the majority vote for the Assembly's law-making powers to be extended, Measures will be replaced by Acts of the Assembly.

From 1997 to 2000, McCreevy cut Capital Gains Tax from 40 % to 20 %, and extended Section 23 Tax allowances to the Upper Shannon Area ( against the advice of the Finance Department ) in the Finance Acts of 1998 and 1999.

They were required to be held between February 1 and May 31, but Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2008 extended this window of time to June 30.

There is an extended benefit program ( authorized through the Social Security Acts ) that may be triggered by state economic conditions.

However, two Reform Acts ( in 1867 and in 1884 ) significantly extended the franchise and redrew the constituencies, and coincided with a change in Irish politics.

Objectionable policies listed in the Declaration include taxation without representation, extended use of vice admiralty courts, the several Coercive Acts, and the Declaratory Act.

By the Act of Settlement 1701, Parliament passed the line of succession to Electress Sophia of Hanover ; this decision was confirmed and extended to all of Great Britain by the Acts of Union 1707.

The original Act was amended and extended six times over the course of the War, firstly on 28 August 1914 by the Defence of the Realm ( No. 2 ) Act 1914, and then on 27 November 1914 by the Defence of the Realm Consolidation Act 1914 ( which repealed and replaced the existing Acts ).

Successive Reform Acts both extended the franchise eventually to almost all adult citizens ( barring convicts, lunatics and members of the House of Lords ) and also reduced and finally eliminated most of the plural voting by 1950 for both Westminster and local-government elections.

Following the union of England and Scotland by the Acts of Union 1707, Scotland continued to have its own treason laws until the Treason Act 1708 abolished Scottish treason law and extended English treason law to Scotland.

Meanwhile the eligibility to vote was extended from men who held property of a high enough value, to universal suffrage for all adults over the age of 21, as a result of the Representation of the People Acts in 1918 and 1928.

His knowledge further extended to such popular non-canonical texts as the Acts of Archelaus and the Gospel of Thomas.

One of the Coercive Acts, the Boston Port Act, had cut off Boston's trade ; this blockade was now extended to all of Massachusetts.

These speeches, which are given in full, have been the source of debates over the historical accuracy of Acts.

George Shillington writes that the author of Acts most likely created the speeches and accordingly they bear his literary and theological marks.

For instance, there are similarities between 1 Peter and Peter's speeches in the Biblical book of Acts.

** Acts 4 and 5 are heavily cut, and scenes and speeches are freely rearranged.

A number of his speeches and debates with Greek philosophers are recorded in the Biblical Book of Acts, and his epistles became a significant source for later Christian philosophies.

In contrast to this are examples from the Bible, where sermons are speeches without interlocution: Moses ' sermon in Deuteronomy 1-33 ; Jesus ' sermon on the mount in Matthew 5-7 ; Peter's sermon after Pentecost in Acts 2: 14-40.

Finally receiving that document in early 1868, he then vigorously opposed the Reconstruction Acts, making a series of speeches that summer that bitterly denounced the policies of the reigning Radical Republicans in Congress.

Chapter 3. 6 quotes Tacitus, Varro, Valerius Maximus, Orosius, Frontinus, Strabo, Caesar, Columella, Plutarch, Josephus, Diodorus Siculus, Photius, Xiphilinus, Zonaras, Seneca, Petronius, Juvenal, Philo, Celsus, the authors of the Acts of the Apostles and of the pseudo-gospels of Nicodemus and St. James, and Claudius himself in his surviving letters and speeches.

The ancient Christian kerygma as summarized by Dodd from Peter's speeches in the New Testament Book of Acts was:

" The Acts of the Apostles and other sources contain several accounts of early Christians following this directive by engaging in individual conversations and mass sermons to spread the " good news ".

* sermons published separately including A Sermon on Acts xiii.

The first preaching of Jesus is described in the words: " Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand "; and the Apostles, in their first sermons to the people, warn them to " do penance and be baptized for the remission of their sins " ( Acts 2: 38 ).